Mike Goddard

Hazel Canter

Barry Maxwell

Rolande Anderson took up her post as RA Chief Executive in July 2002.

During her career she has previously worked at the Department for Trade and Industry, Cabinet Office, the Insolvency Service, and the Senior Salaries Review Body. Within DTI she has held a number of senior posts involving policy and planning, including Head of Aerospace and Defence Industries Policy in the Aerospace Division and Director of Regional European Funds.

Her last DTI posting was as Director - Competition Policy, covering UK, EC and international competition policy and legislation as well as the competition implications of utilities regulation.

Mike Goddard's responsibilities include development of the UK's strategy for the use of the spectrum, co-ordinating with other government departments to determine the national position, and representing that position on behalf of the UK in the relevant international fora.

Mike has been with the Agency and its predecessors since 1969, when he completed a student apprenticeship with what was then the General Post Office, and has been involved in many areas of the Agency's work. Mike's international experience started in 1972 and it has been a main feature of his career ever since. He has led the UK delegation to all ITU World Radio Conferences since 1987, led delegations to the Plenipotentiary Conferences in 1994 and 1998, and serves as the UK Member of the ITU Council. Mike has held many international chairmanships, and currently chairs the European group that prepares for major ITU conferences (except World Radio Conferences), and an OECD Task Force on Radio Astronomy.

Mike chairs the Agency's Spectrum Policy Committee, the two main UK interdepartmental committees on national and international spectrum planning, and represents the Agency on the high-level official interdepartmental committee on spectrum strategy.

Hazel Canter came to the Agency in 1998 and, as Director of Spectrum Services, is responsible for the licensing of the civil radio spectrum and for spectrum competitions. This involves managing the seven business units that cover various types of licensing, and securing an income of some £100 million p.a.

Her previous post was as Director of Resources at ACAS. Prior to that Hazel had a series of posts within the civil service, in the Departments of Employment and Health where she worked on policy-related social research. She has been in the civil service for 26 years but started her working life as an academic researcher at the University of Bristol and has a dual honours degree in English and Psychology and a second degree in Social Research Methods.

Barry first came to the Agency from DTI in 1983 and he spent four years as Head of Licensing Policy for all services except mobile radio. He then worked for almost a year in the Secretary of State's Central Unit at the DTI before returning to the Agency in 1988 as Director of Regional Services. To that original portfolio of the Regions and enforcement/interference policy has been added responsibility for the Baldock Radio Monitoring Station, the Radio Technology and Compatibility Group and technical research.

Barry has been on the Agency's Management Board since it was formed in 1990 and he is also a Director of Radio Spectrum International, the public/private partnership which supplies IT services to the Agency and markets the Agency's expertise in overseas markets.