Weekly Intelligence Brief

MMO’s first board appointed

11 February 2010

The Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) first board has been appointed by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn.

The MMO is due to become formally operational on 1 April 2010.

The Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 establishes the MMO, a new executive Non- Departmental Public Body, as the UK Government’s strategic delivery body in the marine area and a centre of marine management expertise, to ensure effective planning and management of the seas. 

The board members are: Rodney Anderson, Richard Birmingham, Robert James, Derek Langslow, Jeremy Loyd, Nigel Reader, Jane Ryder and Jayne Scott. The appointments, which are either for three or four years, started from the beginning of this month.

Board Members will be entitled to a fee of £11,804 based on a minimum time commitment of 36 days a year.

Steven Gant was appointed as the first chief executive officer of the MMO in December.

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