"Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Gurr, as interim chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), had already heeded Prime Minister's Keir Starmer's advice to be more commercially minded. "Under Doug Gurr's leadership as Interim Chair, the CMA is playing a key role in delivering the government's pro-growth agenda, ensuring the UK is a place where businesses can grow and invest with confidence," he said."
"The CMA regulates the UK cloud and retail market, in which Amazon has a massive stake. Last year, the CMA found that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services were using their dominance in ways that may harm UK cloud customers and proposed designating both with strategic market status (SMS). Following a 21-month investigation into the health of the local landscape, the regulator found that "competition is not working as well as it could.""
"He became UK country manager in 2016. He left Amazon in 2020 to become director of the Natural History Museum. Gurr said: "The government have been clear in their commitment to delivering economic growth and improving household prosperity. I have enjoyed my time at the CMA and can see a clear contribution we can make here through promoting competition and protecting consumers.""
Doug Gurr, a former head of Amazon UK, has been selected as the preferred candidate to serve a full five-year term as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority after an open competition. Gurr was interim chair from January 2025. Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Gurr has been more commercially minded and credited his leadership with supporting the government's pro-growth agenda. Gurr previously joined Amazon in 2011, served as China country manager and UK country manager, and left in 2020 to lead the Natural History Museum. The CMA is investigating major cloud providers and proposed strategic market status for Microsoft and Amazon Web Services after finding competition weaknesses.
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