Chair
Rosamund Blomfield-Smith joined the Utility Regulator as its non-executive Board Chair on 1 October 2024.
Rosamund Blomfield-Smith was previously Director, responsible for utilities (electricity, gas and water) corporate finance at both Rothschilds and ING Barings, and for the past twenty years has had a non-executive ‘portfolio’ career.
She has served on a wide variety of boards including the National Rivers Authority (the predecessor body to the Environment Agency); Natural England (where she served on the main board and also chaired the government’s Landscape Advisory Panel); the Museum of London Archaeology, latterly as Chair; the Ofgem non-executive Challenge Group, on which she served for a total of five years; Thames Water; and Moat Homes (a substantial – 22,000 unit) housing association, which she chaired.
Rosamund lives in Herefordshire where she and her husband rear rare breed cattle, sheep and pigs.
Rosamund does not hold any other public appointments in Northern Ireland.