Mark McAllister has been Chair of Ofgem since November 2023. Previously he served as Chair of the Office for Nuclear Regulation and was a member of the Management Committee of the Public Chairs Forum.
During a 40-year executive career in the upstream energy industry, Mark was on the executive board of two of the UK’s most successful independent companies, Monument and LASMO. He also founded and served as CEO of two North Sea start-up businesses, Acorn and Fairfield Energy, and was most recently CEO of PA Resources, listed on the Scandinavian NASDAQ.
Mark served as Chairman of OSPRAG (Oil Spill Prevention and Response Advisory Group) which formulated the joint response of the North Sea oil industry, trade unions and government to the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2009 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from Robert Gordon’s University for services to the oil industry.