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Monitor's Board consists of members appointed by the Secretary of State for Health. It comprises four non-executive directors.
 

Monitor’s Board members 

• Mr Steve Bundred - Chair
  
  

  Mr Bundred was appointed to Monitor’s Board from 1 May 2010, for a period of four years.

  Steve Bundred was previously Chief Executive of the Audit Commission. Prior to joining the Audit Commission in 2003, Steve was Executive Director of the Improvement and Development Agency for local government. Before that he was the Chief Executive of the London Borough of Camden for seven years, having previously been its Director of Finance. He has also previously worked for Lewisham and Hackney councils and London University’s Birkbeck College.

  Steve has been a TEC Assessor, a member of the Higher Education Funding Council, and the Chair of the Higher Education Review Group. He has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by City University, of which he was formerly Deputy Pro Chancellor, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

  
  
• Mr Christopher Mellor - Deputy Chair (Non-Executive Director)
  
  

  After an initial three-year appointment from May 2004, Mr Mellor was reappointed to Monitor’s Board from 10 May 2007, for a period of four years.

  He is a member of Monitor’s Audit and Risk Committee and Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

  Mr Mellor is also a member of Monitor’s Honours Committee and Nominations Committee. He has been Chair of Monitor’s Compliance Board Committee since it was established in February 2010.

  Mr Mellor was also Non-Executive Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer of Northern Ireland Water until 12 March 2010 and is Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Grontmij UK Ltd, the consultant engineering firm. He retired as Chief Executive of Anglian Water Group plc in March 2003, after 13 years with the company. Previously he was a Non-Executive Director of Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust between 1994 and 1998, where he was Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr Mellor was also a member of the Government’s Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment.
   

  
  
• Mr Stephen Thornton (Non-Executive Director)
  
  

  Mr Thornton joined Monitor on 1 October 2006 for three years and was reappointed from 1 October 2009 for a period of four years.

  Mr Thornton is a member of the Honours Committee and Monitor’s Compliance Board Committee, established in February 2010.

  Mr Thornton is Chief Executive of The Health Foundation, which is an independent healthcare charitable foundation working to improve the quality of healthcare in the UK, and is a member of the Department of Health’s National Quality Board.

  He has held various senior executive NHS management and board positions over the last 15 years. He was Chief Executive of Cambridge & Huntingdon Health Authority from 1993 to 1997, and Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation from 1997 to 2001. He was a Commissioner on the board of the Healthcare Commission from February 2004 until July 2006.

  
  
• Ms Jude Goffe (Non-Executive Director)
  
  

  After an initial four-year appointment from July 2004, Ms Goffe was reappointed to Monitor’s Board from 8 May 2008 for a period of four years. She is Chair of Monitor’s Audit and Risk Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee.
  
  A venture capital and corporate adviser, Ms Goffe is also a trustee of the King’s Fund. She has previously served as a Non-Executive Director of the Independent Television Commission and a Non-Executive Director of Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust from 1994 to 2004. Ms Goffe also chaired the Trust’s Audit and Commercial Services Committees and was a member of its Remuneration Committee. Between 1984 and 1991 she was employed by the 3i Group plc in a number of investment roles, culminating in the position of Investment Director. Ms Goffe is a chartered accountant by profession.