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Board members

The Board consists of six remunerated part-time members who are independent of the mobile sector. All Board members are members of PhonepayPlus' Committee and IMCB Ltd is a subsidiary of PhonepayPlus. More details about PhonepayPlus - the premium rate regulator - can be found at www.phonepayplus.org.uk.

They meet, as a full Board, approximately four times a year to discuss issues and policy and all other areas related to the running of IMCB.

The current Chairman of the Board is Sir Alistair Graham.

Sir Alistair Graham, Chairman

Sir Alistair Graham

Sir Alistair Graham is currently Chairman of the Committee of Standards in Public Life and Chair of the Independent Mobile Classification Body. He is also Chairman of the British Transport Police Authority. Previous to this he was Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority. After twenty years as a Civil Service trade union leader, Sir Alistair was Chief Executive of the Industrial Society (now the work foundation) from 1986 to 1991. He went on to become Chief Executive of Calderdale and Kirklees Training and Enterprise Council, before transferring to Leeds where he pursued the equivalent role in the Leeds Training and Enterprise Council until 2000. Between 1997 and 2000, Sir Alistair also served as Chairman of the Parades Commission for Northern Ireland.

Stephen Locke

Stephen Locke

Stephen Locke has wide ranging experience of consumer protection and regulation, and has held posts at senior levels in both public and private sectors. He is a Board member of the National Consumer Council, and is a member of the Financial Services Authority's independent Consumer Panel. Until the summer of 2003 he was the project director charged with the preparations for Ofcom, having previously been Director of Advertising and Sponsorship at the Independent Television Commission. In the 1990s, Stephen was Director of Research and Policy at Consumers' Association; he has also worked in management consultancy and as a civil servant in the Treasury, where he was Nigel Lawson's private secretary in the early years of the Thatcher government.

David Clarke

Sir Alistair Graham

David Clarke was a former Marketing Director of both Kellogg's and Scottish Power, and Managing Director of Scottish Power's consumer energy division. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Board Member at the Office of the Information Commissioner and is a member of the Audit Committee.

He is also a Non-Executive Director of Forensic Science Service Ltd and a Non-Executive Director of the Cumberland Building Society. In addition, he holds voluntary positions as Director of South Lakeland Council for Voluntary Service and as Chairman of the Abbeyfield (Kirkby Lonsdale) Society.

Matti Alderson

Stephen Locke

Matti Alderson is Executive Chairman of the Direct Marketing Commission, the regulator for the the direct marketing industry, and Managing Director of Firehorses which provides clients with advice on regulatory policy and strategy. She is a Commissioner with the Press Complaints Commission and a former Director General of the Advertising Standards Authority.

Ruth Evans

Stephen Locke

Ruth Evans is Chairman of the Bar Standards Board, the legal regulator, Deputy Chairman of the Ofcom Consumer Panel (until July 2008) and a lay member of the General Medical Council. Ruth is a former Chief Executive of the National Consumer Council and a member of the Queen's Counsel Selection Panel.


Staff of IMCB

Director (and PhonepayPlus' Deputy Director)
Paul Whiteing
E-mail: pwhiteing@imcb.org.uk

IMCB Executive
E-mail: advice@imcb.org.uk


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