Update from Monitor, the Foundation Trust regulator

The regulator Monitor is interested in the strategic, financial and governance practices of foundation trusts (FTs). This event will give foundation trusts and aspiring foundation trusts the opportunity to learn more from Bill Moyes, Chairman of Monitor, about developments in FT’s governance arrangements and what Monitor see the particular challenges facing FT’s in London to be. In addition, Bill will be giving an update on Monitors’ work to develop the role of FT governors.

Given by

Bill Moyes, Monitor

William ("Bill") Moyes was appointed as Chairman of Monitor in December 2003. Previously, Bill was Director-General of the British Retail Consortium from 2000 to 2003.

He has had a varied career in the public and private sectors. Educated at Edinburgh University, where he completed a Ph.D. in Chemistry, he joined the Civil Service in 1974 in the then Department of the Environment. He was a member of the economic secretariat in the Cabinet Office between 1980 and 1983. He then moved to Edinburgh and held a variety of posts in the Scottish Office, including in finance, education, agriculture & fisheries and health. In the last of these posts he was Director of Strategy and Performance Management in the Management Executive of the NHS in Scotland.

In 1994 he joined the British Linen Bank (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland), initially on secondment, and established their PFI advisory and equity investment team, which focused on large deals mainly in health. He was appointed a Director of the BLB in 1996 and, when it was absorbed into the Bank of Scotland, Bill was appointed as Head of the Infrastructure Investments Department.