Graham Mather

Graham Christopher Spencer Mather CBE (born 23 October 1954, Preston) is a British former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). ^[1]

Mather was educated at Hutton Grammar School and New College, Oxford. While there, he became an officer in the Oxford University Conservative Association. He became a lawyer, and was also a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, and spent time as the head of the policy unit at the Institute of Directors. At the 1983 general election, he unsuccessfully stood in Blackburn. ^[2] From 1987 to 1992 he was General Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

He was a Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 1999 for the Hampshire North and Oxford constituency, having previously been a member of the Westminster City Council 1982–86. He served on the Monopolies & Mergers Commission from 1987-93 and the Competition Appeal Tribunal from 2010-2020. He was a board member of Ofcom from 2014-2023 ^[3] and of ORR from 2016 - 2021. He has been a board member of Ofgem since 2023. He is president of the European Policy Forum, including The Infrastructure Forum, The Regulation Forum and European Financial Forum.

Mather was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to economic regulation, competition, and infrastructure development. ^[4]

References

1. "Graham MATHER". Europarl.europa.eu. 23 October 1954. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
2. BBC-Vacher's Biographical Guide 1996. London: BBC Political Research Unit and Vacher's Publications. 1996. pp. 6–22. ISBN   0951520857.
3. Ofcom today announced the appointment of three new non-executive members to its Board Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Ofcom, 30 May 2014.
4. "No. 61962". The London Gazette (Supplement). 17 June 2017. p. B9.