{"id":64663,"date":"2015-11-26T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1d4cc78874d026eca8e86fda6a590aca"},"modified":"2015-11-26T13:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:00:59","slug":"press-release-cma-announces-new-director-of-rbfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64663","title":{"rendered":"Press release: CMA announces new Director of RBFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Susannah, currently an Assistant Director in the <abbr title=\"Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis\">RBFA<\/abbr> Group, takes up her post in December. Her role involves leading the development of remedies and financial analysis on major Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) projects including the energy and private healthcare market investigations. She will report into Adam Land, Senior Director of <abbr title=\"Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis\">RBFA<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis\">RBFA<\/abbr> Group is the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s centre of excellence for all aspects of remedies work and for providing commercial and financial expertise across the spectrum of the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s casework, including market and mergers cases, competition and consumer enforcement and regulatory reviews. The <abbr title=\"Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis\">RBFA<\/abbr> Group is also leading a wide ranging series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases?keywords=&amp;case_type%5B%5D=review-of-orders-and-undertakings&amp;case_state%5B%5D=open&amp;closed_date%5Bfrom%5D=&amp;closed_date%5Bto%5D=\">reviews into previous merger, market and monopolies remedies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Land said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted to appoint Susannah to this role. That Susannah was able to prevail against such a strong field for this publicly advertised role, reflects well on her personal capability and on the important contributions she has made during her time to date at the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>. It also highlights the career development opportunities available to <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Susannah will be an important member of my leadership team as we further develop <abbr title=\"Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis\">RBFA<\/abbr> as a key profession in the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>, adding value across the whole organisation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"notes-for-editors\">Notes for editors<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Susannah replaces Lucy Beverley, who has taken up a role with the Financial Conduct Authority.<\/li>\n<li>Susannah joined the Competition Commission (<abbr title=\"Competition Commission\">CC<\/abbr>) in April 2012 and has worked on a range of phase 2 market inquiries since then, as well as the IBA-Alliance and Akzo-Metlac mergers. Prior to joining the <abbr title=\"Competition Commission\">CC<\/abbr>, she worked in Deloitte\u2019s economic consulting practice, advising on access pricing issues in the telecom sector. Susannah started her career in the corporate finance and recovery team at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she advised clients on a wide range of transactions, including leveraged buy-outs and debt restructurings.<\/li>\n<li>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is the UK\u2019s primary competition and consumer authority. It is an independent non-ministerial government department with responsibility for carrying out investigations into mergers, markets and the regulated industries and enforcing competition and consumer law. <\/li>\n<li>For more information on the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/competition-and-markets-authority\">homepage<\/a> or follow us on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMAgovUK\">@CMAgovuk<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cma-gov-uk\/\">Flickr<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/competition-and-markets-authority?trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=tas%3ACompetition+and+Markets+Authority\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Enquiries should be directed to Kasia Reardon (<a href=\"mailto:kasia.reardon@cma.gsi.gov.uk\">kasia.reardon@cma.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>, 0203 738 6901).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has today appointed Susannah Meeke as its new Director of Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis (RBFA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}