Appointed January 2007
Age 48
Committee memberships: Executive
Mark Fairbairn was appointed to the Board in January 2007 as Executive Director with responsibility for Gas Distribution. He joined National Grid in 1989 from BNFL. He was awarded an OBE in 2001 for his services to the electrical industry in respect of his leadership of the fundamental changes implemented for the introduction of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements. Previously Chief Operating Officer of the UK gas distribution business, he has played a key role in helping to restructure the UK gas distribution market through the gas networks sales and the creation of National Grid’s new gas distribution business.