Our governance
The Ofqual board is the legal authority responsible for the regulation of qualifications, examinations and assessments.
The board provides leadership and direction, setting our strategic aims, values and standards. Its work is governed by the , first adopted on 1 April 2010 and last revised in October 2025.
Board members
Members of the board are:
- Dr Susan Tranter, Chair, CEO and accounting officer of EdAct
- Sir Ian Bauckham CBE, Chief Regulator
- Susan Barratt, former audit partner at Deloitte
- Hardip Begol CBE, non-executive director, Oak National Academy, and trustee, Education Policy Institute
- Jill Duffy, Governor, Oxford Brookes University
- Kurt Hintz, Interim Principal and CEO, Havant and South Downs College, and Director, Fortis Education Consulting Ltd
- Cindy Leslie, trustee/non-executive director/Chair of Audit Committee, Birbeck College, University of London
- Chris Paterson, Director of Impact at the Education Endowment Foundation
- Clare Pelham, Chief Executive of the Epilepsy Society
- Andrea Rigamonti, Member of the Board and of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee of Middlesex University London, Director, Keystone Business Consulting Ltd, and Independent Member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, Fair Work Agency
- Conor Ryan, Board Member, Oak National Academy
Executive
The executive directors are:
- Michael Hanton, Deputy Chief Regulator
- David Bowden, Executive Director, Finance and Operations
- Tom Bramley, Executive Director, Research and Analysis
- Daniel Gutteridge, General Counsel
- Catherine Large OBE, Executive Director, Policy
- Amanda Swann, Executive Director, Delivery
- Matt Trimmer, Executive Director, Strategy