Our Advisory Pool of Experts (APEX) is a pool of external and independent subject matter experts who may be called upon to provide advice in an area in which expertise is lacking internally or where an in-depth or more independent view will be helpful. Find out who is on APEX on our website.
All policy development is undertaken by our executive staff, and overseen by the Board. This process involves consultation with consumers and stakeholders and gaining expertise from a wider pool of people and backgrounds.
Experts either give advice to staff working on development of policy, or to those taking decisions on authorisations and waivers. They will not usually give advice in another area. For example, an expert appointed to give advice to staff working on policy development would not usually be called upon to give advice to staff taking decisions on authorisations and waivers.
Please see the list of members, their areas of expertise and brief biographical information.
Lay APEX members to advise staff working on policy development have been appointed in the areas of:
- Competition and Economics
- Consumer Affairs
- Equality and Diversity
- Higher Education
- Insurance
- Quality Assurance
- Regulatory Policy and Theory
- Regulatory Risk
Barrister APEX members to advise staff working on policy development have been appointed in the areas of:
- Competition Law
- Equality and Diversity Law
- Information Law and Data Protection
- Money Laundering Regulations and Financial Sanctions
- Regulatory Law
Staff taking regulatory decisions on authorisations and for the approval of exemptions and waivers from bar training requirements can seek advice from experts in the teaching of Foundation of Law subjects on the comparability of overseas qualifications and / or experience to UK honours degree standard, EU law and Equality legislation.
