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TRA board members’ register of declared interests

Updated 2 July 2026

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TRA board members register of declared interests

This list sets out declared interests of executive and non-executive members who are serving on the Trade Remedies Authority’s Board as at 31 March 2026.

Board members are asked to declare any current or previous (up to two years) personal, business or related interests that may, or may be perceived by a reasonable member of the public, to influence their judgements in performing their obligations to the TRA.

The list is categorised into:

  • Sources of remuneration
  • Contracts
  • Shares and securities
  • Houses, lands and buildings
  • Non-financial interests
  • Related party interests
  • Other

All gifts & hospitality have been declared on the appropriate register.

John Alty

Sources of renumeration:

  • Competition Appeal Tribunal: Panel member
  • Pagefield: Advisor

Non-financial interests:

  • Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade: Trustee Director
  • London School of Economics: Visiting Professor in practice

Nick Baird

Sources of remuneration:

  • Blurred strategic communications consultancy: Strategic Adviser
  • Nick Baird Consulting Ltd: Director
  • Portman Group: Chair
  • Ted ‘n’ Ivy Ltd: Director
  • Strategic Advisory Council, Digital Advisory: Member

Houses, land and buildings:

  • Owner of holiday let property

Non-financial interests:

  • British Association for Turkish Area Studies: Honorary President
  • Carers UK Charity: Chair
  • Cheltenham Ladies College: Council member

  • FCOCLCHK: Director (connected to above role)

  • Kew Society: Patron
  • Palace Yard: Member of Pathways to Net Zero group
  • Currys plc: family member employee

Guita Blake:

Non-financial interests:

  • Board Advisor to a portfolio of UK Tech-led Start-up/Scale-up companies including, Distinction Ltd.
  • Be-the-Business: Board Advisor.
  • PWC NED Programme: Member Previous roles:
  • Professional Network: Mentor and Member
  • NEDonBoard: Member

Shares and Securities

  • Amati AIM VCT plc
  • Molten Ventures VCT plc

Houses, land and buildings:

  • Owner of rental properties
  • Hitachi Europe Ltd: family member employee
  • Sotheby’s: family member employee Previous roles:
  • CapGemini: family member previous employee (until 2013)
  • Savills Plc: family member previous employee

Jessica Blakely

No declared interests.

Clare Brodie

No declared interests

Patricia Gallan

Sources of renumeration:

  • Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust: Vice Chair
  • Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Non-Executive Director
  • NHS North West London Acute Provide Collaborative: Non-Executive Director
  • Assurance and Appointments Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council: Chair
    Previous roles
  • HMRC: Non-Executive Director (until July 2025)

Non-financial interests:

  • Queen Mary University, London: External Council Member Previous roles:
  • Drapers’ Brookside Infant and Junior School: Chair (until July 2024)
  • Drapers’ Brookside Infant and Junior School: Vice Chair and Governor (until January 2026)
  • Drapers’ Multi Academy Trust: Trustee until (until January 2026)

John Hughes

Source of remuneration:

  • Blessed Investment incorporating Abkons & ARC: Chair of Advisory Board
  • JCH Global Consulting Ltd: Managing Director
  • Marlow Global: Senior Advisor to Governance Board Previous roles:
  • Marlow Global: Chair of Governance Board (until February 2025)
  • PwC Strategy: family member employee
  • University College London: family member employee

Adam Marshall

Sources of remuneration:

  • AJBM Services Ltd: Director
  • Flint Global: Specialist Partner
  • HSBC UK: Senior Adviser
  • Opus: Advisory Board member
  • CoEdu Ltd/Corndel Ltd: Non-Executive Director Previous roles:
  • Chartered Management Institute: Senior Adviser (until Apr 2025)
  • Glasswall Ltd: Advisory Council Member.
  • Estates and Agency Holdings Ltd: Advisory Board Member

Shares and securities:

  • AJBM Services Ltd: sole shareholder

Non-financial interests:

  • Industry and Parliamentary Trust: Non-Executive Director and Trustee
  • Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines (JJIM): family member employee.

Steven O’Donoghue

Non-financial interests:

  • GIAA: personal friendship with the Chair 
  • Joy Transformation International Leadership Academy: personal friendship with owner
  • Welsh government: personal friendship with Director of People & Places
  • University of Swansea: family member is employed there.

Carmen Suarez

No declared interests.

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