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TRA board members’ register of declared interests

Updated 5 August 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 1 July 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

Related party interests:

  • 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

Related party interests:

  • 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
  • Civil Service Commissioner

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)

Related party interests:

  • 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

Related party interests:

  • 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

Related party interests:

  • University of Swansea: family member is employed there.

Carmen Suarez

No declared interests.

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