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New director to strengthen OFT's consumer protection team

PN 106/03     31 July 2003

Colin Brown, currently Chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, has been appointed the new branch director of Co-regulation and Coordination in OFT's Consumer Regulation Enforcement Division.

Colin Brown will lead the development, promotion and implementation of OFT policy on self-regulation and in particular OFT's new regime to support consumer codes of practice. He will also play a key role in coordinating OFT's enforcement with others, both in the UK and internationally.

After graduating from Surrey University, Colin worked as a researcher and in 1978 joined the Policy Studies Institute. In 1990 he joined the Consumers' Association, ultimately becoming Deputy Director of Research. He then became an independent consultant, working on research and policy development for a number of consumer organisations in the UK and internationally. In 2001 he became Chairman of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, representing consumer interests in the policy making of the Financial Services Authority.

He joins OFT on 1 November after directing the programme for the 17th World Consumer Congress in Lisbon in October.

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