Anna Walker (civil servant)

The Honourable Anna Elizabeth Blackstock Walker CB (born 1951) is a British senior civil servant and regulator of services. She succeeded Chris Bolt as chair of the Office of Rail Regulation on 5 July 2009 when Bolt's five-year term of office expired.[1] In this role, Walker was the IRG-Rail Chair for 2013; the members of IRG-Rail consist of the independent Regulatory Bodies of twenty-one countries inside and outside the European Union. She has been a member of Consumer Focus since 1 October 2008.[2][3]

She was Chief Executive of the Healthcare Commission from its formation on 1 April 2004 until 31 March 2009, when its functions in England were broadly subsumed by the Care Quality Commission.

Walker is married to Timothy Walker former director general of the Health and Safety Executive,[4] and former Third Church Estates Commissioner with whom she has three adult children.[5] She is the daughter of Lord Butterworth.[4]

Career

Education

References

  1. 1 2 "Anna Walker announced as ORR Chairman designate" (Press release). Office of Rail Regulation. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
  2. 1 2 Healthcare Commission - Senior management Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ National Consumer Council - Merger news Archived 18 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. 1 2 "A life less ordinary: Anna Walker". Public. The Guardian: 52. September 2008.
  5. ↑ John Carvel (11 October 2006). "Standards bearer". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2008.

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