Itret Latif joined the FCS board in 2009 and was appointed FCS Deputy Chairman in summer 2016. He also brings more than 18 years of telecoms and energy industry leadership, regulatory and policy development expertise and management experience. Itret has held several leading non-executive director positions in Telecoms and Energy and has been invited to provide evidence to both the House of Commons and House of Lords on telecoms and energy. In his evidence to the House of Lords in 2012 he was first to identify broadband as an essential service and a utility. At the same hearing, he called for Regulatory change and restructuring of BT with Openreach being separated to become a legal entity owning both the infrastructure assets and engineering operation.

As a former senior executive of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE), he established and headed highly profitable SSE retail telecoms and gas businesses. Other roles include Chairman respectively of the Gas Forum and SPAA organisations where he led on behalf of members the development of industry governance arrangements for the gas supply industry retail competition. He has considerable experience and appreciation of the challenges faced by new entrants. He brings a wealth of leadership, business policy development and regulatory experience to the FCS Board.