Allan Asher

Allan Asher is the Chief Executive Officer of Energywatch [1], a gas and electricity watchdog. He sits on the Advisory Board for the Office of Fair Trading. [2]

He was previously the Campaigns Director of the Consumers' Association. He is also Director of FEMAG (Foundation for Effective Markets and Governance) in Canberra, Australia, and chair of INSOC ((International Network of Civil Society Organisations on Competition) in Jaipur, India.

In addition, Asher chairs the consumer policy committee of the British Standards Institute and acts as a consultant to Consumers' International and to the Consumer Unity and Trade Society (India).

Asher is a member of Transparency International.

Notes

<Energywatch, http://www.energywatch.org.uk/about_us/chief_executive/index.asp, last accessed 04 March 2008: 21:24/>

<Office of Fair Trading, http://www.oft.gov.uk/about/organisation/board/asher, last accessed 04 March: 21:23./>