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TRA board members’ register of declared interests

Updated 4 August 2025

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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 14 July 2025.

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: Adviser 

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
  • Westminster Foundation for Democracy: Consultancy work

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

Previous roles:

  • Cheltenham Ladies College: Chair (until 2023)

  • Kew Foundation Charity: Trustee (until 2023)

Related party interests:

  • Currys plc: family member works there.

Guita Blake

Sources of remuneration:

  • Mindtree Ltd: Head of Europe and Global Management Council member

Houses, land and buildings:

  • Owner of rental properties

Non-financial interests:

  • Board Advisor to a portfolio of UK Tech-led Start-up/Scale-up companies including CARNOT Ltd, P2i Ltd, Koolmill Systems Ltd, Pantopic Cyber Ltd, Distinction Ltd.
  • Be-the-Business: Board Advisor.
  • Professional Network: Mentor

Related party interests:

  • Hitachi Europe Ltd: Family member employed there.
  • Savills Plc: Family member employed there.
  • Sotheby’s: Family member employed there.

Previous:

  • CapGemini: Family member employed there until 2013.

Jessica Blakely

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)
  • HMRC: Non-Executive Director

Non-financial interests:

  • Drapers’ Brookside Infant and Junior School: Vice Chair and Governor
  • Drapers’ Multi Academy Trust: Trustee
  • Queen Mary University, London: External Council Member

Previous roles:

  • Drapers’ Brookside Infant and Junior School: Chair (until July 2024)

John Hughes

Source of remuneration:

  • Blessed Investment incorporating Abkons & ARC: Chair of Advisory Board
  • JCH Global Consulting Ltd: Managing Director
  • Marlow Global: Chair of Governance Board

Non-financial interests:

  • FCDO: Lead reviewer of the Tripartite Scholarship scheme (until April 2023)

Related party interests:

  • PwC Strategy: family member works there.
  • University College London: family member works there.

Adam Marshall

Sources of remuneration:

  • AJBM Services Ltd: Director
  • CoEdu Ltd/Corndel Ltd: Non-Executive Director
  • Estates and Agency Holdings Ltd: Advisory Board Member
  • Flint Global: Specialist Partner
  • Glasswall Ltd: Advisory Council Member
  • HSBC UK: Senior Adviser
  • Opus: Advisory Board member

Previous roles:

  • Chartered Management Institute: Senior Adviser

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 is employed there.

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 as an Associate Professor

Carmen Suarez

No declared interests

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