Ordinary Member
Robin Mason is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) at the University of Birmingham; Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; and Officer of the Order of the Rio Branco, for his contribution to academic co-operation between Brazil and the UK. He was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean (Business School) at the University of Exeter, as well as Professor of Economics. His area of expertise is industrial organisation in general, and in particular the economics of regulation and competition. He has provided expert advice for a number of regulators, in the UK and internationally, on competition matters and spectrum auctions. He served for eight years on the Competition Commission and Competition and Markets Authority. He is currently a panel Member at the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator.