Amerdeep Somal has been named as the preferred candidate for the role, taking up the position in January and replacing the current interim ombudsman Paul Najsarek.
The provisional appointment will be reviewed by the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee in September and confirmed by Royal Warrant later this year.
Somal is as the current financial regulators complaints commissioner and the chief commissioner at the Data and Marketing Commission. She is also a judge at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal and a former founding commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
She is also the incoming board chair of the Law Society, a role she will take on in January 2024 alongside her position as ombudsman.
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