Sir Bryan Carsberg
He is Chairman of the Council of Loughborough University and a non-executive director of RM plc, SVB Holdings PLC, Inmarsat plc and Philip Allan Publishers Ltd. He was the first Director General of Telecommunications (head of Oftel, the non-ministerial government department formed to regulate the UK telecoms sector following the privatisation of British Telecom) from 1984 to 1992, Director General of Fair Trading from 1992 to 1995 and Secretary General of the International Accounting Standards Committee (predecessor of the International Accounting Standards Board) from 1995 to 2001. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries; he was knighted in January 1989. He holds an MSc.(Econ) from the London School of Economics.