Sara Vaughan is Chair of the Board at 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 also Chair of South Staffordshire Water plc and Steering Group Co-chair in Icebreaker One’s work on Open Energy. She is a Fellow of the Energy Institute and Chair of her local Parish Council.

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 E.ON.