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Anna Elizabeth Blackstock Walker CB (born 1951) is a

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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 Wesley Bolt CB (born 1953) is a British economist and civil servant who was the non-executive chairman of the Office of Rail Regulation, the national economic and safety regulatory authority for Britain's railways. Background C ...

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 Stephen Glaister. She was Chief Executive of the

Healthcare Commission The Healthcare Commission was a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Health of the United Kingdom. It was set up to promote and drive improvement in the quality of health care and public health in England and Wales. It aime ...

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,

Consumer Focus The New National Consumer Council, operating as Consumer Futures, was a non-departmental public body and statutory consumer organisation in England, Wales, Scotland, and, for postal services, Northern Ireland. It was established by the Consumer ...

*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 a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England, located on a bank of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formally known under ...

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( MA History) *

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...

, US *

Benenden School Benenden School is a private 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 day s ...

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(where she was a contemporary of

Princess Anne Anne, Princess Royal (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is a member of the British royal family. She is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the only sister of King ...

, now the Princess Royal) * 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