Inquiry chairs' biographies
Updated 21 September 2026
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Cyrus Mehta (Panel Chair)
Cyrus Mehta
Cyrus was appointed Panel Chair on 19 September 2026. He has been a Panel Inquiry Chair since 1 October 2025 and a Non-Executive Director of the Board since February 2024. He is also a member of the CMA’s specialist news and media, and payment systems panels.
Cyrus is a former Partner and Head of the EU and Competition team at international law firm CMS in London. He has over 35 years’ experience in the field of UK and EU competition law, state aid, consumer law, trade law and regulation in both London and Brussels.
Kirstin Baker
Kirstin Baker
Kirstin was appointed a Panel Inquiry Chair and Panel Member Non-Executive Director of the CMA in September 2018, stepping down from the board in March 2024. She is also a member of the Subsidy Advice Unit Committee.
Kirstin had a long career in the civil service and was most recently HM Treasury’s Finance and Commercial Director. Earlier in her career Kirstin was part of the senior team leading the Treasury’s response to the banking crisis and was awarded a CBE for this work.
Kirstin has also worked as a competition official in the European Commission, as an EU policy adviser in the Cabinet Office and as a senior civil servant in the Scottish Government, leading work on infrastructure investment banks.
Martin Coleman
Martin Coleman
Martin was appointed as a CMA Panel Inquiry Chair and Panel Member in September 2018. His appointment term as CMA Panel Chair and Non-Executive Director of the Board ended on 18 September 2026.
He was a partner and global head of the Competition Law practice at the law firm, Norton Rose Fulbright, serving as a member of the firm’s management group until he retired in 2017. Currently he is the Chair of the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority and the Expert Panel Chair of the Independent Football Regulator. He is also a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Martin has written and spoken extensively on competition policy matters and was co-author (with Michael Grenfell) of ‘The Competition Act 1998’ (Oxford University Press).
Margot Daly
Margot Daly
Margot was appointed a Panel Inquiry Chair of the CMA in September 2021, having previously been appointed as a Panel member in May 2020. She serves as a Non-Executive Board Director and chairs the Audit and Risk Committee at the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI), which provides hospitality and retail services to British service people worldwide. Additionally, she is the chair of the board of trustees at GamCare, the UK’s leading provider of support services for individuals affected by problem gambling.