Board of FCA financial regulator named A consumer advocate, a competition expert and the head of a state-owned savings bank have been named as board members of the new Financial Conduct Authority. David Harker, former head of the Citizens Advice bureau, Amelia Fletcher, a former chief economist at the Office of Fair Trading, and Jane Platt, chief executive of National Savings & Investment, the state-owned investments organisation, will serve as non-executive directors of the new body, which takes charge of investor protection and financial markets on Tuesday. The board will also include three external members who sat on the board of the Financial Services Authority, which is shutting down, four FCA executives, the chairman John Griffith-Jones and Andrew Bailey, who is head of the other new financial regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority. The former FSA board members are Sir Brian Pomeroy, a former partner at Deloitte, a consultancy, Amanda Davidson, a director of an independent financial advice business, and Mick McAterr, a consumer advocate. The executive members will be Martin Wheatley, who heads the FCA, Clive Adamson, who will be in charge of supervision, Tracey McDermott, enforcement chief and Leslie Titcomb, the chief operating officer. "Only three of the seven non-executive directors have any real market experience, the remaining four being state sector," said Simon Morris of CMS Cameron McKenna, a law firm. Practitioners are a small minority on the board and this suggests the FCA will have a civil-servanty approach to regulation.