Elizabeth France, Chair

Elizabeth France has, since October 2002, been the Chief Ombudsman and Chief Executive of the Ombudsman Service LTD (TOSL), which provides the Telecommunications Ombudsman Service (Otelo), the Energy Ombudsman Service and the Surveyors Ombudsman Service.

Previously Elizabeth was a career Civil Servant. She resigned from the Civil Service to become the Data Protection Registrar in September 1994 becoming Information Commissioner in January 2001.

Elizabeth is a non-executive Director of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency. She is a member of the General Assembly of the University of Manchester and Vice President of the University of Aberystwyth.

Elizabeth has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of De Montfort, Loughborough and Bradford and is a Fellow of Aberystwyth University. In June 2002 she was awarded a CBE, for services to data protection.