Board members

Alan Clamp became the Chief Executive of the Professional Standards Authority on 1 November 2018. He was formerly the Chief Executive of the Security Industry Authority (SIA). The SIA is a public body that regulates private security in the UK. It supports the key priorities of the Home Office by contributing to the reduction and prevention of crime, and to public protection.

Alan previously held the post of Chief Executive at the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), an independent regulator sponsored by the Department of Health. Prior to this he worked in regulation in the education sector, including several years at Ofsted.

In addition to working for almost 20 years in regulation, Alan has served on the National Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group at the Home Office and as a regulatory adviser to the Bar Standards Board. Alan is a member of the Regulators' Forum at the London School of Economics.

Antony is the Complaints Commissioner for the Financial Services Regulators; Chair of the Regulatory Board of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Chair of the UK and Ireland Regulatory Board of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, and a member of the global Regulatory Board; and a Trustee of Citizens Advice South Warwickshire.

He was the inaugural Chief Executive of the Solicitors Regulation Authority from 2006 to 2014. Previously, he was Chief Executive of the General Dental Council; a Director of the General Medical Council; and a civil servant in the Home Office working principally on criminal justice issues. 

Tom joined the National Health Service as a Graduate Trainee in 1971. In 1973 he was appointed Unit Administrator at the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald and his career in the health service later took him to North and West Belfast and Lisburn. In 1980 was appointed as District Administrative Officer to Londonderry, Limavady and Strabane HSS District. In 1981 he became Chief Administrative Officer in the Western Health and Social Services Board, at the age of 31 the youngest person in the UK to be appointed to such a post, and in 1985, following the implementation of the Griffiths Report, he was appointed as the Board's General Manager.

A series of fellowships led to health care study visits to the United States, Australia and New Zealand. In 1994 he headed a Northern Ireland project team which won a competitive tender to advise on the development of the health service system in Zimbabwe. Nearer home he helped to establish a North-South organisation of neighbouring health boards with the aim of mutual help, understanding and shared service development - CAWT.

He became the Assembly Ombudsman and Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints in September 2000. In 2001, as Ombudsman, the Standards and Privileges Committee of the Assembly asked that he become the interim Commissioner for Standards at the Assembly.

In June 2002, at the invitation of the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, he became the chair of the Panel of Experts that was appointed to support the Review of Public Administration. In 2003 Tom received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulster. The award acknowledged his impressive track record of public service.

In 2004 Tom was elected by his fellow Ombudsmen in Europe to represent them as a Director of the European Region of the International Ombudsman Institute and a member of World Board that oversees the work worldwide of the Institute. Also in 2004 Tom was appointed to the Alumni Advisory Council of the Eisenhower Fellowships of Philadelphia to represent the island of Ireland in that forum, a position he held until 2008. In September 2006 Tom accepted the honorary award by the University of Ulster of the status and title of Visiting Professor of Leadership attached to the Faculty of Business and Management School of Accounting.

In November 2006, Tom was elected as the Vice President of the World Board of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI), a post he held until December 2012. In 2008 Tom was awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours List.

Tom retired as Northern Ireland Ombudsman in March 2016

Frances is a Chartered Accountant whose career has spanned public, private and third sectors.

Frances is currently Vice Chair of the Birmingham Independent Improvement Panel. The Panel was appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to monitor and support Birmingham City Council in the implementation of its improvement programme.

Frances is a Trustee, and Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, of the Canal and River Trust, the charity entrusted with the care of 2,000 miles of waterways in England and Wales.

Previously Frances served as Chair of the Youth Justice Board between 2008 and 2014. The Youth Justice Board oversees the youth justice system in England and Wales and commissions the secure estate for young people held in custody.

Between 1991 and 1998 she served first as Director of Finance and later Chief Executive of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

Frances was also Chief Executive of Manchester 2002 – the Organising Committee of the successful XVII Commonwealth Games – which generated a significant economic, sporting and cultural legacy for the city of Manchester.

From 2003 to 2006 Frances was Managing Director for Local Government, Housing and Criminal Justice at the Audit Commission with responsibility for the Commission’s audit and inspection work in relation to local government in England.

George Jenkins has been Chairman of Dover Harbour Board since 1 January 2013. He also serves as Chair of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. He recently stood down as the Deputy Chair and Chair of Governance and Audit of NHS Blood and Transplant.
 
Previously he was Chairman of South London Healthcare NHS Trust, Turnaround Executive Chairman of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, and Chairman of East Kent Hospitals Trust. He was Chairman of the Medway Dock Labour Board, Executive Chairman and Managing Director of The Transit Group and has held a number of executive and non-executive positions in the ports industry.

George was also appointed Chairman, Single Source Regulations Office working with the Defence Industry and the Ministry of Defence on major single source defence procurement contracts.

Marcus Longley is Chair of the Cwm Taf University Health Board. Marcus has also served as a Board Member for the Welsh Consumer Council, and for Consumer Focus Wales and was until August 2017 Professor of Applied Health Policy and Director of the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales. He has been a Special Advisor for Health to the Welsh Affairs Committee in the House of Commons, and is currently an Expert Advisor to the Bevan Commission, having previously been a Member there. Marcus also chairs the Health and Social Care Group at the Institute of Welsh Affairs, and is a Senior Associate at The Nuffield Trust.

Marcus was educated at the universities of Oxford, Cardiff and Bristol, and worked in the NHS from 1981 to 1995. He was elected a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians in 2008.

Moi has nearly 30 years’ experience in communications and training, particularly within the public and voluntary sectors. She has written 20 books on various aspects of marketing and communications, for leading publishers such as Dorling Kindersley, and her communications handbook for health and care professionals is published in February 2017.

She is an experienced non-executive director and chair. Currently she is a Board Member on the Scottish Police Authority, the Scottish Ambulance Service and Education Scotland. In a voluntary capacity she sits on the governing body of Edinburgh Napier University.

Moi was Scotland’s first Judicial Complaints Reviewer and her previous Board roles include Vice President of the world’s largest healthcare regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council; Board Member of Postwatch; and Independent Council Member, Postal Redress Service.

She has also been a Public Appointments Ambassador and mentor on the public leadership programme; and a Review Body Member, Office for Judicial Complaints (Ministry of Justice).

Moi was a finalist in the UK Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2010 and Scottish Asian Women’s Awards 2014. 

Renata's background is in business strategy consulting, latterly as a Director at Capita Health Partners and previously as a Partner at EY (formerly Ernst & Young) and Principal Consultant at KPMG. During her consulting career she has led hundreds of projects for a wide range of clients including developers, operators and funders in the private, public and voluntary sectors in the UK, Europe and Middle East. 

Renata has a long-standing interest in health sector issues. She was an elected Trustee at the patient charity Diabetes UK, and also at National Voices, the coalition of health and social care charities. She has also held Non Executive Directorships at two acute hospital Trusts (where she chaired the Audit Committee and Charitable Funds Committees respectively). She was also a Non Executive Director at a Primary Care Trust and Primary Care Trust Cluster (where she was Vice Chair of the Audit and Clinical Commissioning Group Committees). She was also Chief Executive and Trustee of self management uk, the country’s leading provider of self-management programmes for people with long-term health conditions.

In addition to her current role at the Professional Standards Authority, Renata is a Non Executive Director of an acute hospital Foundation Trust, and a Board member of the Self Care Forum.