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Keith Boyfield is a consultant economist who specialises in competition and regulatory issues. He advises a range of multinational companies, trade associations and non-profit organisations.

He has acted as a consultant to a wide range of major companies in the UK and globally  including Aon, Mid American Energy Holdings, BNFL plc, British Sky Broadcasting Ltd,  KPMG, Siemens and Thomson Reuters plc.  He has also advised several major financial institutions and trade bodies including the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA), the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA),  J P Morgan and the Swiss Bankers’ Association.

Keith has served as a consultant to the European Commission’s Competition and Energy & Transport Directorates and he was recently reappointed as a Member of Postcomm’s Advisors Framework Panel, the statutory regulator for postal services in the United Kingdom.

He has written numerous studies for several leading think-tanks, including the Adam Smith Institute, the European Policy Forum, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) and the Centre for Policy Studies.

Keith chairs the Regulatory Evaluation Group of the Adam Smith Institute and he also chairs the Shadow Regulatory Policy Committee of the IEA, where he is a Member of the Editorial Board of Economic Affairs, the IEA’s quarterly journal.

Keith was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2003, the world's largest professional body for marketing, for whom he has also acted as a consultant.

Keith is a regular contributor to the press, television and radio, notably the BBC. He appears frequently on the British and Irish media and for more than a decade he has been a regular commentator on Aljazeera’s worldwide Arab language service. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent. He also contributes to a number of specialist journals and magazines, most notably Acquisitions Monthly, The Financial Regulator and Utility Week. His in-depth study of the rapidly changing relationship between the banking and insurance sectors - Global Insurance and the Capital Markets - was published in April 2008 by International Financing Review (IFR) Marketing Intelligence, a division of Thomson Reuters.

In 2009 he was appointed Chairman of Leriba Ltd, a pan-African business intelligence consultancy (see www.leribarisk.com).

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