David Edmonds (businessman)

David Albert Edmonds CBE (born 6 March 1944) is a British businessman, civil servant and administrator, From 2008-2014 he was chair of the Legal Services Board, the overarching regulator for legal services in England and Wales. He is Chairman of NHS Shared Business Services (2004-) and Chairman of the Board of Kingston University. He is a Board Member of Barchester Healthcare.

The son of Albert and Gladys Edmonds of Kingsley, Cheshire, he was educated at Helsby Grammar School and the University of Keele. He was a civil servant from 1966 to 1974 before becoming a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. Returning to the British civil service in 1975, from 1979 until 1983 he was Principal Private Secretary to Michael Heseltine, Secretary of State for the Environment. After a year as Under Secretary for Inner City Policy, he became chief executive of the Housing Corporation from 1984 to 1991. He was deputy chairman of the board of the New Statesman and Society from 1988 to 1990. He became a managing director within NatWest Group in 1991. He was Director General of Oftel from 1998 to 2003 where he championed inter alia the unbundling of BT's local loop, the reduction of mobile charges and the deregulation of directory enquiries. He then went on to chair NHS Direct from 2004 until 2008. He was appointed as chairman of the Legal Services Board on 17 May 2008. He was Chairman of Wincanton PLC from 2008 until 2011, having joined that Board in 2005.

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