Who is the recently appointed Chairman of the BBC?
"as the governing body of the Corporation, Grade left the BBC to become Executive Chairman of ITV. Chitra Bharucha, then Vice-Chairman, became the Acting Chairman. Sir Michael Lyons was subsequently appointed the first permanent Chairman of the BBC Trust, taking up the position from 1 May 2007. In September 2010 Sir Michael wrote to the Secretary of State, Jeremy Hunt, stating that he did not wish to be considered for a second term as Chairman. He stood down from the post in April 2011. Following a recruitment process led by the government, Chris Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes was appointed"
"corporation, independent from direct government intervention, with its activities being overseen from April 2017 by the BBC Board and regulated by Ofcom. The Chairman is Sir David Clementi. The BBC operates under a Royal Charter. The current Charter came into effect on 1 January 2017 and runs until 31 December 2026. The 2017 charter abolished the BBC Trust and replaced it with external regulation by Ofcom, with governance by the BBC Board. Under the Royal Charter, the BBC must obtain a licence from the Home Secretary. This licence is accompanied by an agreement which sets the terms and conditions under"
"Foundation since 2011, and was appointed Deputy Chairman of Channel 4 in 2012, a post he was obliged to relinquish upon becoming Director-General of the BBC. On 29 June 2018 Tony Hall was elected as the new President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). On 25 March 2015, Hall decided not to renew ""Top Gear"" presenter Jeremy Clarkson's BBC contract after an internal investigation found that Clarkson had assaulted the programme's producer. Hall and his wife received death threats which the BBC decided were 'credible', and they were subsequently guarded by police. On 28 March, Scotland Yard confirmed that officers"
"Fran Unsworth Francesca Mary ""Fran"" Unsworth (born 29 December 1957) is a British journalist and media executive. Since January 2018 she has been Director, News & Current Affairs for BBC News. She was appointed in succession to James Harding. Before then she served in various senior positions in the BBC, including director of the BBC World Service Group. Previously she was Acting Director of News at the BBC from November 2012 until August 2013 and a member of the BBC's executive board. In 2013 she was appointed Deputy Director of News and Current Affairs. A native of in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire,"
"Director-General of the BBC The Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC. The position was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period of 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to 2017). Since 2017 the Director-General is appointed by the BBC Board. To date sixteen individuals, all of whom have been men, have been appointed Director-General, plus an additional two who were appointed in an acting capacity only. The current Director-General is Tony, Lord Hall, who was appointed from the chief executiveship"
"abolished, and that Moore would assume the overall post for all of them, including responsibility for the iPlayer, later in the year. Moore has been a trustee since 2005 of the Grierson Trust, of which she is a Vice-Chair. Moore was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2016. Moore is married with two children. Her husband is Johann Perry. Charlotte Moore (TV executive) Charlotte Alexandra Moore (born 19 June 1968) is the BBC's Director of Content. She was appointed to this role in early 2016 when she assumed responsibility for all of the BBC's television channels after"
"Board as a non-executive director and chairman designate on 1 October 2013, and that he would succeed Dick Olver as chairman in the first quarter of 2014. On 20 March 2015 it was announced that Carr had been appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the BBC Trust and will serve on the BBC's governing body for 4 years. Carr was knighted in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to business. Roger Carr (businessman) Sir Roger Martyn Carr (born 22 December 1946) is a British businessman, Chairman of BAE Systems. He attended Nottingham High School and graduated with a BA in"
"Guardian newspaper. In August 2013, he was also appointed Chairman of the board of Bloomsbury Publishing, in an independent and non-executive capacity. He was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to young people and public life. Anthony Salz Sir Anthony Michael Vaughan Salz (born 30 June 1950) is a British solicitor. He sat on the Board of Governors of the BBC and was Acting Chairman in 2006. Salz assumed the position on 1 August 2004 after the resignation of the former Vice Chairman, Lord Ryder. Following the resignation of Michael Grade as BBC Chairman on 28 November 2006,"
"Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead Anthony William Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, (born 3 March 1951) is the Director-General of the BBC. He took up the post of Director-General on 2 April 2013. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London from 2001 until March 2013, and Director of News at the BBC between 1993 and 2001. Hall was made a Life Peer and took his seat in the House of Lords as a crossbench member on 22 March 2010. Tony Hall, the son of a bank manager, was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire,"
"to the role and began a four-year term on 1 May 2011. Patten resigned in May 2014 following heart surgery. He was replaced by the Vice Chairman, Diane Coyle, in an acting capacity until a new Chairman was selected. On 31 August 2014 it was announced that Rona Fairhead would become the new Chairman of the trust. The remuneration for BBC Trustees was determined by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and paid for by the BBC. The table below shows the base fees for Trustees during 2014–15. The Chairman is expected to spend 3 days a week on"
"Marcus Agius Marcus Ambrose Paul Agius (; born 22 July 1946) is a British financier and former group chairman of Barclays. He serves on the BBC's new executive board as a senior non-executive director. Marcus Agius was born on 22 July 1946, the son of Ena Eleanora (née Hueffer) and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Victor Louis Benedict Agius. He is of part Maltese descent, and was educated at St George's College, Weybridge. He earned his degree in Mechanical Sciences and Economics at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Agius' banking career began at the investment"
"8 May 2018 ""The Guardian"" reported that, ""Sir Cliff Richard is seeking a payment of at least £560,000 from the BBC following the broadcaster’s coverage of a police raid at his home in 2014"". In July 2018 Sir Cliff won his case for damages. Fran Unsworth Francesca Mary ""Fran"" Unsworth (born 29 December 1957) is a British journalist and media executive. Since January 2018 she has been Director, News & Current Affairs for BBC News. She was appointed in succession to James Harding. Before then she served in various senior positions in the BBC, including director of the BBC World"
"would like to focus:"" The full report can be found here Lyons is married and has three children and lives in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Michael Lyons (BBC chairman) Sir Michael Thomas Lyons (born 15 September 1949), is the non-executive chairman of the English Cities Fund and Participle Ltd; he is a former Chairman of the BBC Trust. He is a former Labour Party councillor and council chief executive in the United Kingdom, who has also been involved in some of the key central government commissions and reports into local government finance from 2000 to 2007. Michael Lyons was educated at"
"Charlotte Moore (TV executive) Charlotte Alexandra Moore (born 19 June 1968) is the BBC's Director of Content. She was appointed to this role in early 2016 when she assumed responsibility for all of the BBC's television channels after the controller posts were abolished. In January 2013, she had been appointed as the Controller of BBC One. A graduate of Bristol University, she joined Ideal World as a producer-director of documentaries in 2002. As a freelancer in this joint role, her credits included ""Lagos Airport"", RTS award-winning ""Living With Cancer"" and ""Great Britons: Churchill"". She was appointed head of documentaries for"
"James Harding (journalist) James Paul Harding (born 15 September 1969) is a British journalist, and was the Director of BBC News from August 2013 until 1 January 2018.. He is the co-founder of Tortoise Media. In December 2007, he was appointed as editor of ""The Times"" newspaper, the youngest person to assume the post, following Robert Thomson's appointment as publisher of the ""Wall Street Journal"". He left ""The Times"" in December 2012, and was succeeded by John Witherow as acting editor. Harding was raised in north-west London, the grandson of a German Jewish refugee. He was educated at two independent"
"David Clementi Sir David Cecil Clementi (born 25 February 1949) is an English business executive and a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. He is currently Chairman of the BBC. Clementi holds a number of board positions including Chairman of International Payments business World First and Vice Chairman of Investment Manager Ruffer Group. He has held numerous other positions including Chairman of Prudential plc, one of Britain's largest insurance companies, non-executive director on the board of governors of the Rio Tinto Group and until June 2015 was Chairman of Virgin Money, seeing the business through its IPO. In"
"April. BBC Trust Vice Chairman Diane Coyle took over as Acting Chairman until the appointment of a new chairman. In May 2016, Patten said that the BBC has ""lost some of its ambition"" in its coverage of science, philosophy and history, and should “stretch” audiences more. Patten, bemoaned the fact that much of the corporation’s high-brow programming had been moved to BBC Four, the digital channel, and given low budgets that meant shows were “sometimes made with glue and string”. In a speech on the future of the BBC, which he said was ""one of this country’s greatest institutions"", Patten"
"Anthony Salz Sir Anthony Michael Vaughan Salz (born 30 June 1950) is a British solicitor. He sat on the Board of Governors of the BBC and was Acting Chairman in 2006. Salz assumed the position on 1 August 2004 after the resignation of the former Vice Chairman, Lord Ryder. Following the resignation of Michael Grade as BBC Chairman on 28 November 2006, Salz became Acting Chairman, and continued in this position until the BBC Trust succeeded the Governors on 1 January 2007. Salz's career had given him experience in the broadcasting industry, as he had worked on the merger of"
"of the Royal Opera House, which position he had held from April 2001. He is the first peer to hold the position (Lords Reith and Birt having been raised to the peerage only after their tenures had ended). An asterisk indicates that the incumbent was temporarily appointed as Acting Director General. Director-General of the BBC The Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC. The position was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period of 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to"
"that her appointment had caused surprise at the BBC, which had expected someone with a higher public profile to get the job. Others considered for the post were Sebastian Coe, the former Chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and former Camelot Group chief executive Dianne Thompson. Fairhead officially took up the BBC Trust role on an acting basis on 9 September 2014, following approval by the House of Commons Select Committee for Culture, Media and Sport. She was formally appointed by the Privy Council of the United Kingdom on 8 October 2014, for a"
"formation of the Trust on 1 November 2006 and Bharucha became the Acting BBC Chairman, a position that she held until Sir Michael Lyons took over the chairmanship on 1 May 2007. Bharucha stood down from her role as Vice Chairman of the Trust on 31 October 2010. Chitra Bharucha Chitra Bharucha MBE, FRCPath, FRSA, (born 6 April 1945) is a former consultant haematologist and former vice chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. She became the first woman and first South Asian (""Asian"" in British English) to head the BBC Born in Madurai,"
"the chairman. On 9 March 2017, BT announced that du Plessis would be taking over as chairman from November 2017. Jan du Plessis Jan Petrus du Plessis (born 22 January 1954) is the non-executive chairman of BT Group, and is the former non-executive Chairman of Rio Tinto Group plc, and a former non-executive director of the Lloyds TSB Group. Du Plessis was placed tenth in ""The Times"" 2006 Power 100, a list which rates the most powerful people in British business. Du Plessis, an Afrikaner, grew up near Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch for"
"current governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. His term at the BBC finished on 31 October 2008. Dermot Gleeson also served on the Board of the Housing Corporation and the CITB; was Chairman of the Major Contractors Group; and a Trustee of the Institute of Cancer Research. Dermot Gleeson (BBC) Dermot James Gleeson (born 5 September 1949) is the great nephew of Michael Gleeson, the founder of MJ Gleeson Group plc. He was appointed to the Board in 1975, became Chief Executive in 1988 and executive Chairman in 1994. Gleeson graduated from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, worked in the Conservative"
"it was later revealed that the BBC had spent £498,000 defending the claim. In late September 2016, Purnell was appointed as the BBC's Director of Radio and Education, in succession to Helen Boaden. He took up his new position in late October. James Purnell James Mark Dakin Purnell (born 2 March 1970) is a British broadcasting executive and a former politician. In late September 2016, he was appointed as the BBC's Director of Radio, and took up his position in October that year, in addition to his other role as the BBC's Director of Strategy and Digital, a job he"
"married to Cynthia Hall, who was formerly headmistress of The School of St Helen and St Katharine and then of Wycombe Abbey, both girls' schools, and president of the Girls’ Schools Association. They have two children. Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead Anthony William Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, (born 3 March 1951) is the Director-General of the BBC. He took up the post of Director-General on 2 April 2013. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London from 2001 until March 2013, and Director of News at the BBC between 1993 and 2001."
"membership referendum and its aftermath. Kuenssberg is married to James Kelly, a management consultant who studied in Edinburgh and at Harvard. They live in east London. Laura Kuenssberg Laura Juliet Kuenssberg (born 1976) is a British journalist. In July 2015, she was appointed as the political editor of BBC News, the first woman to hold the position, in succession to Nick Robinson. She is the daughter of Scottish businessman Nick Kuenssberg, OBE, and his wife Sally Kuenssberg, CBE. She is the granddaughter of Ekkehard von Kuenssberg (1913-2000), a German-born physician who emigrated to Scotland. Kuenssberg was born in Italy, while"
"now heads both as Chief Executive, BBC Studios and Director, Global. Davie is married and has three sons. Tim Davie Timothy Douglas Davie (born 25 April 1967) is the Chief Executive Officer of BBC Studios (formerly known as BBC Worldwide) who served as acting Director-General of the BBC following George Entwistle's resignation in November 2012 until Lord Hall took over the role permanently in April 2013. During his time as acting director-general he oversaw the investigations into BBC management and conduct following revelations the broadcaster had known about sexual abuse by Sir Jimmy Savile and then made false accusations against"
"elections and European elections coverage in early June 2009. A strategy review of the BBC in March 2010, confirmed that having ""the best journalism in the world"" would form one of five key editorial policies, as part of changes subject to public consultation and BBC Trust approval. After a period of suspension in late 2012, Helen Boaden ceased to be the Director of BBC News. On 16 April 2013, incoming BBC Director-General Tony Hall named James Harding, a former editor of ""The Times"" of London newspaper as Director of News and Current Affairs. From August 2012 to March 2013, all"
"the position of Director-General of the BBC for the same reason. He was announced as having accepted the position of chairman with the Victoria and Albert Museum on 18 June 2007, but stepped down from the post a month later, recognising a conflict of interest with his position at the University of the Arts London. In 2013, it was announced that Tusa would be leaving his post at University of the Arts London from August that year, and that Sir John Sorrell CBE would be the new chairman. Tusa continues to write and broadcast widely. He has written two books"
"market. Though the pioneering feel of the early years may have gone, and China has changed beyond all recognition since that time, CBBC is still filling a vital role of informing, advising, and organising services for British business in China. In 2013, Lord James Sassoon was announced as the new CBBC Chairman. This was also the year that CBBC celebrated the 60th anniversary of its founding. China-Britain business relations have become strong in recent years with the support of CBBC. In 2014, Chinese premier Li Keqiang visited the UK with Lord Sassoon jointly hosting a state dinner on honour of"
"Chitra Bharucha Chitra Bharucha MBE, FRCPath, FRSA, (born 6 April 1945) is a former consultant haematologist and former vice chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. She became the first woman and first South Asian (""Asian"" in British English) to head the BBC Born in Madurai, India, she has lived in the UK since 1972. She was educated at Ewart School, Madras and Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, gaining her medical qualification before moving to the UK in 1972. Between 1981 and 2000, she was consultant clinical haematologist at Belfast City Hospital and"
"Peter Bazalgette Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgette (; born 22 May 1953) is a British television executive. He was elected President of the Royal Television Society and Deputy Chairman of the National Film School. He was knighted in the New Year Honours for 2012 for services to broadcasting. He has been a benefactor to the arts and Chairman of English National Opera. He was Chair of Arts Council England from 2012 until 2016. He is now Executive Chairman of ITV. In January 2017, ""The Empathy Instinct"" was published. Peter Bazalgette is the great-great-grandson of Victorian civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. A"
"United Kingdom's two members of the European Commission. He returned to the UK and became Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003 and was made a life peer in 2005. On 7 April 2011, Queen Elizabeth II approved Patten's appointment as the Chairman of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Patten held the position until his resignation on grounds of ill-health on 6 May 2014. Patten grew up in an Irish Catholic family in west London, the son of a charming but mostly unsuccessful music publisher whose forebears had come to England from Co"