Andrew Whittaker (Member - non-lay)

Andrew is General Counsel to the Board at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), where he provides legal advice to the FSA Board and its top management and is a member of its Executive Committee. He was appointed General Counsel in April 2000 after three years as Deputy General Counsel, leading FSA’s input into the Financial Services and Markets Act. In addition to acting as a lawyer, Andrew has spent part of his regulatory career as a frontline supervisor of investment markets, and part as a policymaker. He was educated at Torquay Boys Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Term of appointment

1 September 2008 - 31 August 2011
1 September 2011 – 31 March 2014