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Ensuring our independence: Maintaining our reputation
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The
board play an important role overseeing the executive
team, directing the business, ensuring cebr’s independence
and maintaining our reputation for high-quality insightful
research.
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In addition to the executive
team, our board of directors oversee our work:
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John Duff, chairman,
has over 30 years senior experience in IBM where, as
a director in the UK and Europe, he was responsible
for new business ventures, European government business
and European personal computer market. |
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Kevin Mahoney
has more than 25 years experience in business management,
especially marketing. He has held senior posts in Rank
Xerox, Caradon Everest (managing director), ISS UK (managing
director) and Electricity Direct (business development
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Douglas McWilliams,
chief executive, was previously IBM United Kingdom’s
chief economist and then chief economic adviser to the
Confederation of British Industry. He was visiting professor
at Kingston University Business School for over 10 years,
and has also been a council member of the Institute for
Fiscal Studies and chairman of the economics forecasting
group of the European federation of employers' organisations,
UNICE. He is a non-executive director of Marconi
Corporation plc. |
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Michael McWilliams,
a chartered engineer, is a director of the engineering
consultancy Scott
Wilson Piésold where he has overall responsibility
for management of the power, water and infrastructure
group. |
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Mark Pragnell,
managing director, has over 10 years experience in consultancy,
industry and public policy. He joined cebr from the Consumers’
Association where, as head of their Consumer Intelligence
Unit, he led research into buying behaviour and trends. |
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Lord Tunnicliffe
CBE
is chairman of the Rail
Safety & Standards Board,and was recently elevated to the House of Lords as a Labour working peer. He enjoyed a distinguished
career in civil aviation before becoming managing director
of London Underground in 1988 and chief executive of London
Transport in 1998. |
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Ianthe Wright
is a career civil servant working for the Department of
Education and Skills. |
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