Senior staff
Kate Collyer - Deputy Director and Economics Director
Kate Collyer has been the Economics Director of the CCP since 2009 and since August 2011 has also been appointed as CCP’s Deputy Director.
Kate joined the CCP from the Competition Commission, where she provided economic advice on a wide range of inquiries. Kate was lead economist on a number of Competition Commission inquiries, including the Groceries Market investigation, the video-on-demand joint venture between BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV and the London Stock Exchange merger inquiries.
Before joining the Competition Commission Kate worked as an economic consultant at Lexecon (now CRAI) advising on antitrust and merger inquiries in a range of sectors in the UK, Europe and US.
Kate has a MSc Economics from London School of Economics, a BSc (hons) Economics from University College London and a Diploma in European Competition Law from Kings College London.
Alistair Brown - Economic Adviser
Alistair joined the CCP in September 2009. He has worked in the field of competition and regulation across a range of industries, including airports, supermarkets and chemicals.
Before joining the CCP, Alistair advised the Department for Transport on reforms to the economic regulation of airports. Prior to this, Alistair worked at the Competition Commission, where he advised on a range of inquires, including the Groceries Market investigation and the BOC/INEOS merger. He has also advised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on competition issues in the Australian groceries sector.
Alistair has a bachelors degree in economics and a masters degree in urban and regional economics.
Mette Christensen - Economic Adviser
Mette joined the CCP as Economic Adviser in September 2009 from University of Manchester, where she held the position of Lecturer in Economics. She has worked in the field of Applied Microeconomics with particular focus on demand estimation, household behaviour, preferences and the economics of ageing. She also taught Econometrics and Statistics at both Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels.
Before joining University of Manchester, she was a Post Doctoral fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where she worked on the "Economics of Ageing in Europe (AGE)" project. From 2006, she was a Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and from 2009 an Honorary Research Fellow at University of Manchester.
Mette gained a PhD in Economics from University of Copenhagen combined with research visits to Northwestern Unviersity, USA, and Unviersity College London. She also has an MSc and an BSc in Mathematics and Economics from University of Copenhagen.
Chris Pike - Economic Adviser
Chris joined the CCP from the Competition Commission. At the Competition Commission he advised on investigations into a range of different markets. These included grocery stores in the UK, mobile phone call termination charges, and video-on-demand services. Chris has a PhD in Industrial Organisation Economics, an MA in Economics, and a BA in Economics, each from the University of East Anglia. He is also an alumni of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy.
Michiel Verkoulen - Economics Adviser
Michiel is an economist with a focus on health care. He recently joined the CCP from the Netherlands where he last worked as an strategy consultant in health care. He helped set up a co-operation of GP's to take responsibility for primary care patients walking in to hospital emergency units and worked on different projects aiming to make quality of care transparent for patients and health insurers.
Prior to his job as a consultant Michiel worked as a policy Adviser at the Netherlands Health Authority (NZa) with a main focus on law enforcement in the interest of consumers, vertical mergers and efficiency effects form mergers in health care. Before working with the NZa Michiel was a case handler and policy adviser with the Netherlands Competition Authority (NMa). He worked on policy and cases involving among others hospitals, pharmacists, construction companies and real estate agents.
Michiel has a MSc Social and Institutional Economics and a bachelors degree in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University.
Daria Prigioni – Economic Adviser
Daria joined the CCP from RBB Economics, where she was directly involved in a wide range of European and national cases. She has considerable experience in advising clients on cases subject to scrutiny by the EC Commission or by national competition authorities and courts. Her work has included mergers and cartel investigations, as well as advice to clients in a number of litigation cases involving both Article 101 and 102 disputes. Her experience covers a range of sectors, including health and pharmaceuticals, retailing, aviation and petroleum products.
Prior to joining RBB, she worked at the UK Competition Commission.
Daria holds an MSc in Economics from University College London, and a BSc in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics.
Ursula Everett – Legal Adviser
Ursula is a competition lawyer who joined the CCP in May 2011 after 6 years experience working for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). At the ACCC Ursula worked on a number of large-scale investigations of mergers and acquisitions, cartels and other antitrust practices in sectors such as groceries, media, health services, mining and resources and consumer goods.
Ursula was lead analyst in many of the cases she worked on at the ACCC.
Prior to the ACCC Ursula was a lawyer at Minter Ellison Lawyers where she advised clients on issues relating to corporate litigation and competition law. Ursula has a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice and a Bachelor of International Relations from Flinders University of South Australia.
Nick Warren - Inquiry Director
Nick joined the CCP from the Competition Commission, where he was business adviser. He assisted with the development and implementation of remedies for the market investigations into Groceries, Payment Protection Insurance and Domestic Bulk Liquid Petroleum Gas and provided business advice on the Stagecoach mergers with local bus companies in Eastbourne and Preston and the Long Clawson acquisition of a Dairycrest business.
Before joining the Competition Commission Nick was Policy and Project Manager at NZBIO, the New Zealand biotechnology association. In that role he consulted with industry on a range of policy issues and was involved with the development of an R&D tax credit scheme, subsequently adopted by the NZ government. Nick also spent a number of years as a tax analyst in the Office of the Chief Tax Counsel, NZ where he advised on the tax liability of companies from a range of industries including securities, utilities and land development.
Nick holds degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of Canterbury, NZ and is a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of NZ.
Luke Dealtry - Case Manager
Luke joined the CCP as a Case Manager in October 2009. He joined from the Competition Commission, where he had been working for three years. His work was predominantly concerned with land issues arising from the Groceries Inquiry but he was also involved in the market inquiry into Rolling Stock Companies.
Anne-Marie Hellier - Clinical Director
Anne-Marie has over 20 years experience working in the NHS in various roles. She started her career as a nurse, working in critical care nursing to senior sister level. Anne-Marie then worked at St George’s Healthcare Trust for several years managing cardiothoracic critical care services before moving into service improvement. Anne-Marie worked for the Transforming Healthcare Delivery team at Kings College Hospital. In 2002 she moved to work for the Modernisation Agency's Critical Care Programme, leading improvement work within critical care before joining the South East London Strategic Health Authority as Development and Service Improvement Lead. One aspect of the role was supporting performance improvement work in order to ensure organisations within the area met key performance targets. She was then appointed Acting Director of Development in 2005. She joined the CCP in February 2009 as Clinical adviser.
Peter Taylor – Healthcare Policy Adviser
Peter is on a secondment to the CCP from NHS London, the Strategic Health Authority for the capital, where he held the post of Head of Market Policy. In his role at the SHA Peter was responsible for the system management function of the NHS in London, working to ensure that the series of values, relationships, contracts and rules, which are designed to promote patient and taxpayer interests within the NHS, were instilled and complied with.
Prior to working for the SHA Peter was an NHS commissioner in the North East of England where he led on a range of service reforms and held a diverse portfolio including Assisted Conception and Fertility Preservation, Sexual Health, Urology and Gynaecology. Peter also held responsibility for contracts across acute foundation trust, ambulance and independent providers, and managed those through the transition to the new standard NHS contracts system.
More recently Peter has been leading on a national project, on behalf of the Department of Health, to develop NHS National Tariffs within Regulated Fertility Services and is currently a member of the Guideline Development Group for fertility at the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as their expert on commissioning.
Tom Frusher - Policy and Communications Director
Tom joined the CCP from the British Medical Association where he led on policy development as Deputy Head of the Health Policy and Economic Research Unit. Tom provided strategic counsel and advice on a wide range of projects, in particular the role of patient choice and competition in the NHS and the operation of the plurality agenda in the context of system reform. His analysis of English health reform has been published internationally.
Other recent work focused on the concept of an NHS Constitution, the future of the Private Finance Initiative and the importance of public and patient involvement in the NHS. Tom also sat on the Staff Side Union working group, opposite the Department of Health’s Commercial Directorate, contributing to the development of the ISTC workforce policy and the Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners (FESC).
Tom has a MSc. Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics, a BSc. (Hons) Sociology, and is an accredited PRINCE 2 Practitioner. Tom is currently on a career break undertaking the Harkness Fellowship in New York. Media queries can be forwarded to media@ccpanel.gsi.gov.uk
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