Anna Walker

Who is Anna Walker?

The Honourable Anna Elizabeth Blackstock Walker CB is a British senior civil servant and regulator of services. She succeeded Chris Bolt as chair of the Office of Rail Regulation on 5 July 2009 when Bolt's five-year term of office expired. In this role, Walker was the IRG-Rail Chair for 2013; the members of IRG-Rail consist of the independent Regulatory Bodies of twenty-one countries inside and outside the European Union. She has been a member of Consumer Focus since 1 October 2008.

She was Chief Executive of the Healthcare Commission from its formation on 1 April 2004 until 31 March 2009, when its functions in England were broadly subsumed by the Care Quality Commission.

Walker is married to Timothy Walker former director general of the Health and Safety Executive, and former Third Church Estates Commissioner with whom she has three adult children. She is the daughter of Lord Butterworth.