Sara Vaughan is Chair of the Board of Elexon, the settlement company for electricity balancing and market facilitator for flexibility, and also of the Balancing and Settlement Code Panel. Sara is a Non-Executive Director at the North Sea Transition Authority, which regulates and influences the oil and gas, offshore hydrogen and carbon storage industries and helps drive North Sea energy transition. Sara is a member of the Energy Advisory Panel and Energy Policy Debates Committee at the Energy Institute, where she is a Fellow, and Steering Group Co-chair in Icebreaker One’s work on Open Energy. She is a local Parish Councillor. Sara was previously at E.ON UK, where she was a Board Director, after holding a number of senior roles in legal, regulatory affairs, energy policy and CSR. Sara’s background was as a competition and regulatory lawyer at Slaughter and May before moving to Powergen (later E.ON).