UK Anti Doping Board appointments have given the national integrity clipboard four names to underline, circle and quietly lose beneath a meeting agenda. The UK Anti Doping Board appointments were announced on 15 July 2026. Moiz Moghal and Caitlin Notley were appointed, while George Walker and Alison O’Riordan were reappointed. Their terms begin on different dates, because even public responsibility apparently needs an arrival lounge.
The four members bring experience in medicine, public health, addiction research, finance, sport and governance. That is a substantial supply of expertise for a board whose paperwork may still ask everyone to confirm that they have read the paperwork.
UK Anti Doping Board appointments meet the clipboard
Dr Moiz Moghal is a consultant in sport and exercise medicine. Professor Caitlin Notley leads public health and addiction research at Norwich Medical School. George Walker brings finance, information technology and audit experience. Associate Professor Alison O’Riordan brings decades of work in high performance and disability sport.
The board now contains enough knowledge to identify a risk before the clipboard has finished writing “potential issue”. It also has enough governance experience to give that risk a reference number, a colour code and a provisional date for reconsideration.
Members receive £215 per day and are expected to attend six board meetings a year. Six meetings should be plenty of time to discuss a problem, form a group to discuss the problem, review the group’s terms and discover that the problem has been invited to chair the review.
Safeguards, declarations and stationery
The appointments followed the Cabinet Office’s Governance Code on Public Appointments. The announcement says all four members declared no significant political activity under the code.
The clipboard approved this safeguard, then demanded a further declaration covering political activity by stationery. It particularly wanted to know whether a pen had ever endorsed a phrase such as “for completeness” with suspicious enthusiasm.
There is nothing comic about preventing doping or protecting athletes. The joke sits in the ceremonial machinery around serious work, where every principle receives a document and every document receives an invitation to a meeting.
The board now has expertise, safeguards and several carefully scheduled chances to look concerned. The clipboard has one final recommendation. Test the ink before the next integrity crisis, because accountability is difficult to record when the pen has been sent to a subcommittee for approval.
Source: GOV.UK.
