Lara Stoimenova
Non Executive Board Member
Lara was appointed a Non-Executive Board Member of the JCRA in October 2020.
Lara is a competition and regulatory economist with over 20 years’ experience, with specialist expertise in telecoms and digital markets. She is the founder of Sigma Economics, a boutique strategy and economics consulting firm. She is also a non-executive member on the boards of Portsmouth Water, where she also chairs their Audit and Risk Committee, and the Payments Systems Regulator.
Prior to setting up her own company Lara was a partner at Flint Global, where she set up their Competition and Regulatory practice. She also worked in senior roles at Ofcom (the UK communications regulator) and the CMA (the UK competition authority). Before joining the public sector, she spent considerable time in economic consulting working for Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.
Lara is a trustee at Reform think-thank, dedicated to improving public services in the UK.