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Alistair Buchanan has been Chief Executive of Ofgem since 2003. He is also a member of the Business Energy Forum and the UK Energy Research Partnership (UKERP) and previously a Non Executive Director for the state-owned company Scottish Water. He was appointed CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in December 2008.
He began his career as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Since then, his working career has been in the financial sector, but closely aligned to energy and utilities. An award winning analyst at Smith New Court (now Merrill Lynch) he was one of the central analysts to the privatisations of the electricity industry in the early 1990s. From 1995 to 2000, Alistair had a break from UK utilities, and was firstly Head of Research at BZW, and then moved to New York to run the American Utilities research team for Salomon Smith Barney. He returned to London with DLJ, where he was head of European Utilities, as he was at ABN Amro.
Past Speaking Events
09 June 2010
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Breakfast Meeting
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London
Keeping Britain’s lights on: the challenges
Threats to the security of gas and electricity energy supplies are leading both government and opposition to propose radical reforms of Britain's energy market after the election. Alistair Buchanan will discuss the options in Ofgem's recent report addressing the massive investment needed and also government intervention.