Michael Pitt

Sir Michael Edward Pitt DL (born 2 February 1949) is chair of the Legal Services Board which is the oversight regulator for the legal sector in England and Wales.

He was previously chair of the Infrastructure Planning Commission, which has the role of considering planning applications for national infrastructure projects under the Planning Act 2008, and was appointed Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate on 1 April 2011.

Pitt graduated from University College London in 1970 with a first class honours degree in Civil Engineering.

On 8 August 2007 Sir Michael was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to chair an independent review into the floods which affected parts of the United Kingdom in the summer of 2007. His final report was published in June 2008, and the government has since begun to implement his recommendations.

He has held a range of other appointments including the chairmanship of the General Medical Council’s National Revalidation Programme Board, He is also a trustee of a family mediation charity in Wiltshire, Mediation Plus.

Pitt received a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2005 for services to local government. In February 2009, he was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire.