Sheldon Mills is the Executive Director, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He is responsible for the delivery of the FCA’s statutory consumer and competition objectives in the combined Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC) division. He was previously the Interim Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA.
Prior to joining the FCA, Sheldon was Senior Director at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) with overall leadership responsibility for the delivery of UK merger control across the entire economy and for the strategic design and implementation of the new UK State Aid regime. He is a qualified solicitor and before joining the CMA he practised law at King & Wood Mallesons and Jones Day, counselling a range of UK and international clients in antitrust and competition law.
Sheldon holds undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees from King’s College, London and was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales.