Beesley Lecture: Financial markets and financeability: recent developments for utility regulation

22nd October 2009, Institute of Directors, London



Speakers include:

Colin Mayer

Colin Mayer

Oxford Said Business School

Regina Finn

Regina Finn

Chief Executive, Ofwat

Biography

Regina Finn is the Chief Executive of Ofwat, the water regulator for England and Wales. She has extensive experience regulating utility sectors, including the electricity and natural gas sectors in Ireland, the telecommunications, post and electricity sectors in Guernsey in the Channel Islands and the communications sector in Ireland.

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Conference overview:

Speaker: Colin Mayer, Peter Moores Dean & Professor of Management Studies, Oxford Said Business School
Chair and Commentator: Regina Finn, Chief Executive, Ofwat

 

The Beesley Lectures are a series of eight annual lectures covering the regulated industries in the UK. Now in their nineteenth year, the lectures are held in memory of Professor Michael Beesley, who founded the series in 1991 and organized them until his death in 1999. He was a leading architect of the British system of utility regulation and a Managing Trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

 

Each evening will begin at the Institute of Directors at 6.30pm. Delegates are encouraged to network over refreshments until 7pm, when the lecture will commence. An industry-leading speaker will give a one hour lecture and a specialist will give a short response before handing over to the audience for further discussion. Each lecture will end at 8.45pm with refreshments.