Sonya Branch

Sonya Branch is General Counsel at the Bank of England. She was appointed by Mark Carney in May 2015 and is responsible for all aspects of the Bank’s legal Directorate and for providing legal advice to the Bank and the Prudential Regulation Authority.
Career.
From 2012-2015 Branch was Director General (Enforcement) and a Board member at the Competition and Markets Authority. Prior to this, Sonya had been an Executive Director of Enforcement and Mergers, and a Board member, at the Office of Fair Trading until its merger with the Competition Commission to form the CMA. Sonya was also seconded to Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs by the Cabinet Office to lead on a Triennial Review in 2012.
From 2000 to 2007, Branch worked at an international law firm Clifford Chance, where she specialised in financial services antitrust law. She began her legal career at Linklaters.
Sonya holds a postgraduate diploma in European Competition Law from Kings College London and read jurisprudence at Magdalen College and Oxford University. She is a Trustee of the national charity, Target Ovarian Cancer, and of Now Teach.