Mr. Ansord E. Hewitt is the Director-General of the OUR, and an ex officio member of the Office, since 2017 January 1. He is a Regulatory Specialist, Economist, and Attorney-at-Law and has almost thirty (30) years of experience at various levels in quasi-judicial organisations. His educational background covers law, management, and economics with extensive specialised
training in, among other areas, regulation, competition analysis, strategic planning, leadership, international negotiation, and corporate planning.

Joined the OUR in 2000 February and prior to that, worked at the Fair Trading Commission and the Jamaica Bauxite Institute. He also lectured at the postgraduate level on Regulation and
Regulatory Reform in the Department of Government, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona for over ten (10) years, and served as a tutor in the UWI Masters in Telecommunications
Regulation and Policy Programme.

He has a Master’s degree in Regulation from the London School of Economics, obtained after being awarded a Chevening Scholarship in 1997, a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Economics
and Management (UWI), and Bachelor of Law from the University of London. He also holds a Certificate in Legal Education from the Norman Manley Law School.