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Provider Risk Committee

The Provider Risk Committee oversees and makes decisions in relation to the registration and regulation of individual English higher education providers.

Two board members serve on the Provider Risk Committee:

  • Martin Coleman (chair)
  • Elizabeth Fagan.

Independent members

Nisha is Director, Public Policy Priorities at the Financial Conduct Authority. She was previously Senior Director, Consumer at the Competition and Markets Authority and Acting Senior Director at The Office of Fair Trading. Nisha’s experience builds on an earlier 20-year legal career in private practice and as a senior Government lawyer.

Michael is a Partner in the global law firm Clifford Chance LLP, specialising in competition and antitrust law. From 2015 to February 2024, he was Executive Director of Enforcement at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and an executive member of the CMA Board. Prior to the CMA’s establishment he was a partner in legal practice at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (previously Norton Rose), where he specialised in competition law for 25 years, including as Head of the firm’s London Competition Group.

Charles is a sub-Committee Member of the Law Society in England and Wales and until recently was a Trustee Director of PwC’s Pension Schemes. Previous roles he held included Chair and Financial Services Supervisor of the Financial Services Regulatory Authority in St Helena, Head of Banking Supervision at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and Lead Partner of PwC’s EMEA Financial Services Regulatory Practice for a number of years.

Up until August 2021 Juliet was General Counsel and Director of Competition at the Office of Road and Rail. She is a member of the CMA’s Panel of independent experts which investigates major mergers and markets and hears regulatory appeals. She is also a member of the Ofgem Enforcement Decision Panel. 

Simon is a partner at Oxera Consulting LLP, and up until 2023 was an Executive Committee member at Ofgem, most recently as Senior Director of Markets and Gas Crisis. Prior to joining Ofgem, he had over 25 years investment banking experience primarily in the energy markets and lectured at a number of UK business schools.

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