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Stephen Gibson OBE (born 9 January 1958) is a British entrepreneur and the chairman and owner of Middlesbrough Football Club. In May 2024, he was listed 350th on the Sunday Times Rich List , with a net worth of £640 million, he is the second richest person from the North East of England.
May 4, 2021 · Make UK welcomes the appointment of Stephen Gibson as the new chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee whose years of experience will be invaluable for its future work.
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Preferred candidate for Chair of Regulatory Policy Committee role named.
Following an open competition, Stephen Gibson has been named as the government’s preferred candidate to the post of Chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee.
The Secretary of State has invited the Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee to hold a pre-appointment hearing and to report on Mr Gibson’s suitability for the post. This is in line with the government’s commitment to strengthen the role of Parliament in scrutinising major public appointments.
Pre-appointment hearings enable select committees to take evidence from preferred candidates for major public appointments before they are appointed. Hearings are in public and involve the select committee publishing a report setting out their views on the candidate’s suitability for the post. Pre-appointment hearings are non-binding but ministers will consider the committee’s views before deciding whether to proceed with an appointment.
Mr Gibson has over 25 years’ experience as a professional economist across a range of regulated sectors including post, water, ports, rail, aviation, energy, broadcasting, advertising and telecoms, working as a consultant and from both sides of the regulatory fence. In 2011 he set up SLG Economics, a consultancy providing expert regulatory and competition economics advice to regulators, regulated companies and consumer bodies.
Mr Gibson is a Member and current Interim Chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee and Director of SLG Economics. He is also a Member of the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) Senior Advisory Board advising on the regulatory framework for Heathrow and NATS and is on the expert panel for ICCAN (the Independent Committee on Civil Aviation Noise). He also lectures in economics at Birkbeck University. Stephen’s previous roles include: Chief Economist at Postcomm, Interim Chief Economist at Ofwat, Principal Economist at Ofcom and Deputy Chair of Bowel Cancer UK.
Stephen Gibson is a recognised expert in regulation and competition economics with over thirty years’ experience across a range of regulated utilities as a consultant and from both sides of the regulatory fence – in regulated companies and regulators.
Stephen Gibson. Director of SLG Economics, Chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee, Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Research Fellow at LSE and member of the Bank...
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Aug 6, 2024 · Stephen Gibson, RPC Chair, highlights key points from the analysis of RPC opinions set out in our 2023 Corporate Report.
Stephen Gibson is Chair of the Government’s Regulatory Policy Co mmittee (RPC) – the independent Better Regulation watchdog in the UK. The RPC provides external scrutiny on the quality of evidence and analysis supporting regulatory changes affecting business and civil society.
