
Hertford Seminar in Regulation: Edinburgh Seminar
Delivered by:Kersti Berge, Director for Energy and Climate Change, Scottish Government. with remarks from Professor George Yarrow, Chairman Emeritus and founder, RPI

Delivered by:Kersti Berge, Director for Energy and Climate Change, Scottish Government. with remarks from Professor George Yarrow, Chairman Emeritus and founder, RPI

Chair:Dr Tony Ballance, Director of Strategy and Regulation, Severn Trent Water Contributions from:Jason Mann, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting;Emily Clark, Chief Economist, BT Group;Lewis Dale,

Chair:Ed Humpherson (UK Statistics Authority) Contributions from:Siobhan Carty, ORR;David Black, Ofwat; andJason Dorsett, Chief Finance Officer, Oxford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This year’s conference had a single theme: the use of evidence in decisions taken by regulatory agencies and competition law enforcement bodies. It is motivated

Delivered by:Sharon Darcy, Director, Sustainability First

Based on accumulated knowledge and experience, the conference examined the features of a number of the major pathologies that can have adverse effects on the functioning of regulatory processes, including the signs, causes, and potential means of remediation of recurring malfunctions.

A roundtable discussion with contributions from:Professor Robert Hahn, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford;Cathryn Ross, Ofwat;Tony Ballance, Severn Trent Water;Maxine Frerk,

This year’s conference occurred in a period of great disturbance and volatility that poses multiple challenges, not only to the ways in which competition and

The general theme of the day was an examination of the ways in which the conduct of public policy can become disordered over time.

Lord David Owen and discussant: Jonathan Faull We were very grateful to Hogan Lovells for hosting this seminar

The 25th Anniversary Conference was an extended discussion and assessment of the policy record. Sponsored by Linklaters.

The gathering took a broad look at market and regulatory governance issues, and the focus was on the institutional arrangements for the making of relevant decisions rather than on any particular decisions that have or might be taken.

The 2015 conference was convened as a symposium with fewer platform presentations and more time for discussion of thorny issues. Each presentation focussed on the

Steve Webb, formerly Pensions Minister

As always, the programme sought to promote the exchange of insights across traditional intellectual and professional boundaries (e.g. economic/legal) and among different groups involved or

The 2014 Westminster conference provided an opportunity for a sustained examination of the related challenges of securing coherence and stability in the conduct of regulatory

This one day conference in London examined the performance of independent regulatory agencies and assessing the factors that appear to have significant effects on regulatory conduct, in order to draw out implications for the future evolution of independent regulation.

Held in conjunction with the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University, London, this conference examined decision-making in the regulatory and competition policy arena,

The RPI 20th anniversary conference.

David Gray Lead Reviewer, Ofwat

This conference considered the consequences of potentially more prescriptive regulatory policy in the context of perceived regulatory and market failures.

In partnership with the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy UEA and sponsored by Hogan Lovells and Oxera.

The conference considered the perceived challenges arising from integrating competition with other policy objectives.

The general theme of this conference was major challenges at the competition/regulation boundaries arising from technological change and from environmental policy pressures.