David Bennett is the Chairman of Monitor, the regulator of the National Health Service in England, having been appointed in February 2011.[1] He had been Monitor's Interim Chief Executive since March 2010.[2]
He was previously Head of the Policy Directorate in Number 10 Downing Street, serving between June 2005 and July 2007, when he was replaced after Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as Prime Minister. Bennett was previously at the management consultancy firm, McKinsey & Company, in a 20-year career.