Director, NHS Co-operation and Competition Panel

Andrew Taylor joined the CCP as Director in November 2008. He has worked extensively in the field of competition and regulation across a range of industries, including grocery retailing, water and wastewater, energy and financial services.

Before joining the CCP, Andrew worked at the Competition Commission, where he was an inquiry director and then Senior Director, Inquiries. He led the Competition Commission's groceries market investigation as well as merger inquiries in industries including grocery retailing, stock exchanges, food and drink manufacturing, and waste treatment and disposal.
From 1999 to 2005, Andrew worked as a consultant at London Economics and Stone & Webster Consultants advising on utility sector economic, regulatory and financial issues both in Europe and elsewhere.

Andrew started his career in the Australian Government working at the Federal Treasury on financial regulation, and later as a special adviser to a Cabinet Minister, where he advised on the introduction of choice and competition into government-financed labour market programmes for unemployed jobseekers.

Andrew has an honours degree in economics from the University of Adelaide and a masters degree in regulation from the London School of Economics.