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Anna Elizabeth Blackstock Walker CB (born 1951) is a

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senior civil servant and regulator of services. Walker is married to Timothy Walker, with whom she has three adult children. She is the daughter of Lord Butterworth.

Career

Walker succeeded

Chris Bolt Christopher Bolt Order of the Bath, CB is a British economist and, formerly non-executive chairman of the Office of Rail Regulation, the national economic and safety regulatory authority for Britain's railways, and (separately) the arbiter for th ...

as chair of the

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on 5 July 2009 when Bolt's five-year term of office expired. 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 stepped down from this role in 2015 and was replaced by

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. She was Chief Executive of the

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from its formation on 1 April 2004 until 31 March 2009, when the commission was abolished and its functions in England were broadly subsumed by the

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. *2009–2016 Chair, Young Epilepsy *2009–2015 Chair,

*2008–2012 Board member and vice chair,

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*2004–2009 Chief Executive,

Healthcare Commission – Senior management
*2001–2003 Director-General for Rural Affairs,

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*1998–2001 Director-General for Energy, Department of Trade and Industry *1994–1997 Deputy Director-General,

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*1975–1994 Civil Servant, mostly at Department of Trade and Industry *1972–1973

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Education

Lady Margaret Hall Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formall ...

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( MA History) *

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United St ...

, US *

Benenden School Benenden School is an independent boarding school for girls in Kent, England, in Hemsted Park at Benenden, between Cranbrook and Tenterden. Benenden has a boarding population of over 550 girls aged 11 to 18, as well as a limited number of da ...

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

* Oxford High School

References

People educated at Benenden School Living people Daughters of life peers Civil servants in the Department of Trade and Industry Civil servants in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Companions of the Order of the Bath Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford 1951 births People educated at Oxford High School, England {{UK-gov-bio-stub