Alistair Buchanan

Alistair is an experienced senior executive, appointed as a non-executive director of Nadara in 2026. Prior to this, Alistair spent seven years serving as Chair at Electricity North West ( ENWL), a £5bn regulated network company serving their 5 million customers. In the five years previous, he was senior partner of the UK energy practise at KPMG.

From 2003, Alistair spent 10 years as CEO of Ofgem (the UK’s gas and electricity markets regulator), during which he also sat on the Boards of Durham University (where he studied) and Scottish Water.

Alistair was awarded the civic honour – the CBE – by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 for services to UK energy policy making.

His early career was spent primarily in the financial services sector with investment banks, both in New York and London, where he was the top ranked investment analyst for several years running.