About Monitor

The Board

Monitor's Board consists of a number of members appointed by the Secretary of State. It presently comprises an executive chairman and four non-executive directors.

William Moyes (Executive Chairman)
Dr Moyes was appointed Executive Chairman in December 2003. He is also Monitor's Accounting Officer.

Dr Moyes was previously Director-General of the British Retail Consortium from 2000 to 2003 and Head of the Infrastructure Investments Department at the Bank of Scotland. He joined the British Linen Bank (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland) in 1994. Before that, he held a variety of posts in the Scottish Office, including Director of Strategy and Performance Management in the Management Executive of the NHS in Scotland. He joined the Civil Service in 1974 in the then Department of the Environment and was a member of the economic secretariat in the Cabinet Office between 1980 and 1983.

Mr Christopher Mellor (Deputy Chairman)
After an initial three-year appointment from May 2004, Mr Mellor was reappointed to Monitor's Board from 10 May 2007, for a period of four years. He is Chair of Monitor's Audit Committee, Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committee.

Mr Mellor is also Non-Executive Chairman of Water Services in Northern Ireland and is Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Grontmij UK Ltd, the consulting engineers' firm. He retired as Chief Executive of Anglian Water Group plc in March 2003, after 13 years with the company. Previously he was a Non-Executive Director of Addenbrooke's NHS Trust between 1994 and 1998, where he was Chair of the Audit Committee. Chris Mellor was also a member of the Government's Advisory Committee on Business in the Environment.

Ms Jude Goffe (Non-Executive Director)
Ms Goffe was appointed for a period of four years from 12 July 2004 and is a member of Monitor's Audit and Remuneration Committees.

A venture capital and corporate advisor, Ms Goffe is also a trustee of the Kings Fund. She has previously served as a Non-Executive Director of the Independent Television Commission (ITC) and a Non-Executive Director of Moorfields Eye Hospital Trust from 1994-2004. Ms Goffe also chaired the Trust's Audit and Commercial Services Committees and was a member of its Remuneration Committee.

Between 1984 and 1991 she was employed by the 3i Group plc in a number of investment roles, culminating in the position of Investment Director. Ms Goffe is a chartered accountant by profession.

Stephen Thornton (Non-Executive Director)
Stephen Thornton joined Monitor on 1 October 2006 and has been appointed for three years.

Stephen Thornton is Chief Executive of The Health Foundation, which is an independent healthcare charitable foundation working to improve the quality of healthcare in the UK. He has held various senior executive NHS management and Board positions over the last 15 years. He was Chief Executive of Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority from 1993 to 1997, and Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation from 1997 to 2001. He was a Commissioner on the Board of the Healthcare Commission from February 2004 until July 2006.

Baroness Elaine Murphy (Non-Executive Director)
Baroness Murphy joined Monitor on 1 July 2006 and has been appointed for four years.

Baroness Elaine Murphy is a clinician by background and was Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at UMDS Guys and St Thomas's Hospitals 1983 to 1996. At the time she also held an NHS general management position. In the last 10 plus years she has held a wide range of executive/non-executive board positions covering a wide range of areas including the voluntary sector and the Mental Health Act Commission. She was Chair of the North East London Strategic Health Authority until 30 June 2006. She is also Chair of St George's Medical School and sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

Minutes of Board meetings
Minutes of Monitor Board meetings are available.

Monitor's Rules of Procedure (opens in a new window)
The rules of procedure establish Monitor's Board and regulate its procedures and those of its committees.

Register of Interests (opens in new window)
In common with other public bodies, Monitor has arrangements under which Board members' potential conflicts of interest can be recognised and managed