Alex Chisholm

Alex Chisholm (born 2 January 1968) is a British and Irish civil servant and regulator, became Permanent Secretary for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) in September 2016. Prior to that he was Joint Permanent Secretary for BEIS after moving from his position as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Alex Chisholm was Chief Executive of the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Chair of the Irish Commission for Communications Regulation, and has held senior positions in the media, technology and e-commerce industries. He is also Trustee and Deputy Chair of Breadline Africa, an international charity.

Chisholm is the son of the late Dr Ian Chisholm FRCP, FRCPsych and Annabelle, daughter of the second Baron Windlesham. He read History at Merton College, Oxford and obtained an MBA at INSEAD.

Chisholm served for six years in the UK’s Department of Trade & Industry and Office of Fair Trading, specialising in competition policy and the media, communications and financial services sectors. He then worked for three years for Pearson plc and the Financial Times, before spending some years working for technology companies, eCountries Inc and Ecceleration Ltd. He also founded and for a number of years ran Heritage Bulbs, a company specialising in the provision of rare and historic bulbs.

In 2007 Chisholm was appointed as a Commissioner of ComReg, becoming Chairperson in February 2010.

On 8 January 2013, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced his appointment as Chief Executive of the new Competition and Markets Authority.

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