Appointed: January 2007
Age: 50
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 the OBE in 2002 for his services to the electrical industry in respect of his leadership of the fundamental changes implemented for the introduction of the New Electrical Trading Arrangements (NETA).

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 sale and the creation of National Grid’s new gas distribution business.