Anna Walker (civil servant)

The Honourable Anna Elizabeth Blackstock Walker CB (born 1951) is a British 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 as chair of the Office of Rail Regulation 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 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 Care Quality Commission.

2009–2016 Chair, Young Epilepsy
2009–2015 Chair, Office of Rail Regulation
2008–2012 Board member and vice chair, Consumer Focus
2004–2009 Chief Executive, Healthcare Commission
2001–2003 Director-General for Rural Affairs, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
1998–2001 Director-General for Energy, Department of Trade and Industry
1994–1997 Deputy Director-General, Oftel
1975–1994 Civil Servant, mostly at Department of Trade and Industry
1972–1973 British Council

Education

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MA History)
Bryn Mawr College, US
Benenden School, Kent (where she was a contemporary of Princess Anne, now the Princess Royal)
Oxford High School

References

^ "A life less ordinary: Anna Walker". Public. The Guardian: 52. September 2008.
John Carvel (11 October 2006). "Standards bearer". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 September 2008.
^ "Anna Walker announced as ORR Chairman designate" (Press release). Office of Rail Regulation. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
"Glaister is ORR's new chair". Local Transport Today. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
"New chair for Young Epilepsy – Roy Williams hands over after 13 successful years". Young Epilepsy. June 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
^ Healthcare Commission – Senior management Archived 6 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
"Consumer Focus Annual report 2012/2013". Retrieved 2 April 2019.

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