The CCP Advisory Board advises on general strategy to ensure that CCP achieves its scientific aims and objectives. It brings together leaders in the field with both practical and academic expertise.

Professor Severin Borenstein Severin is the E.T Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group of the Haas School of Business at the University of California in Berkeley. He is also Director of the University of California Energy Institute (UCEI) and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Peter Freeman Peter Freeman was appointed Chairman of the Competition Commission in 2006, having been a member since May 2003 and a Deputy Chairman since September 2003. Prior to joining the CC, he was head of the EC and Competition Law Group of the international law firm Simmons & Simmons. He was co-founder of, and until 2007, Chairman of the Regulatory Policy Institute, is a Consulting Editor of Butterworths Competition Law, and is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Competition Law Journal and the International Competition Law Forum. He was made an honorary QC in 2010.

Sir Brandon Gough Sir Brandon Gough is a chartered accountant, formerly chairman of Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). He is Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.

Professor Stephen Littlechild Stephen Littlechild was the first electricity regulator in the UK (1989-1998) and is widely regarded as the father of the current regulatory regime.  He is now a Fellow at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, and is active in consultancy in the UK and overseas.

Professor Imelda Maher Imelda Maher is the Sutherland Professor of European Law at University College Dublin.  Her research interests are Competition Law and EU Law and Governance, especially in the context of the EMU.

Thomas Sharpe QC Thomas Sharpe is a barrister practising at One Essex Court, Temple, and is a specialist in UK and EC competition law, regulation and commercial judicial review.

Professor Stephen Wilks Stephen Wilks is Professor of Politics at the University of Exeter and has been a member of the UK Competition Commission since 2001.  He specialises in comparative public policy, micro-economic policy making, the politics of the corporation including corporate governance, and has been researching and writing on competition policy since the early 1990s.  He is currently researching on the operation of the European Competition Network and on the reform and implementation of UK competition policy.

Professor Bruce Lyons Bruce Lyons is Deputy Director of CCP and Head of the School of Economics at UEA, where he is also Professor of Economics.  He is a part-time member of the UK Competition Commission and a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition (to the European Commission).

Professor Morten Hviid Morten Hviid is Director of the Centre for Competition Policy.

Sarah Chambers Sarah Chambers is the Director of Consumer and Competition Policy at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Romesh Vaitilingam Romesh is a writer and media consultant, the author of numerous articles and several successful books in economics, finance and public policy. He advises top management consultancies, investment managers and government agencies, including the ESRC. In 2003, he was awarded an MBE for services to economic and social science.

Giuseppe Abbamonte Giuseppe Abbamonte is a lawyer (primarily commercial and competition law) and currently head of the Contract and Consumer Law unit of the Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission. He has worked in three other DGs (TREN, COMP, SANCO) and is the author of several publications mainly in English law magazines.