Alistair Buchanan CBE

Alistair Buchanan has been Chief Executive of Ofgem since 2003.  He is also a member of the Business Energy Forum and the UK Energy Research Partnership (UKERP) and previously a Non Executive Director for the state-owned company Scottish Water.  He was appointed CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in December 2008.  In 2010 he joined the Council of Durham University.

He began his career as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.  Since then his working career has been in the financial sector with leading investment banks, as both an award winning analyst and as Head of Research, in London and New York.