The FSA has appointed Sir Christopher Kelly KCB as the new chairman of the board of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).
Kelly has been a member of the FOS Board since 2002. He is currently chairman of the NSPCC, a board member of National Consumer Council and formerly he was permanent secretary at the Department of Health.
The FSA also announced the appointment of five non-executive members to the Board of the FOS. They are:
Roger Sanders OBE: currently the principal of an Independent Financial Adviser and Employee Benefits Consultancy and former joint chairman of the FSA small business practitioner panel.
Richard Hampton: currently a senior manager in HSBC's Group Insurance and a director of HSBC Reinsurance (Ireland) Ltd.
Caroline Banks: currently a member of various panels including the Association of Energy Suppliers Code Panel, the Civil Service Appeal Board and a director of the Consumer Policy Institute.
Julian Lee: has been running his own crisis and change management consultancy since 2002. He is also a magistrate with the North Sussex Bench.
David Crowther: retired as head of Global Risk Management from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in 2004.
Ed Hucks, Roger Jefferies, and Kate Lampard have been reappointed to the board.
