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BBC Board
The BBC Board is the governing board of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The Board replaced the BBC Trust The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017. It was operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies, and its stated aim was to make decisions in the best interests of ... in April 2017. The chairman is Richard Sharp. The chair and four non-executive members representing the four nations are appointed by the King-in-Council, on the advice of the UK Secretary of State. Five other non-executive members are appointed by the board and the four executive members are chosen by the board. Executive committee The executive committee is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the broadcaster. References External linksBBC Board Studios * {{BBC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Board Of Directors
A board of directors (commonly referred simply as the board) is an executive committee that jointly supervises the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit or a nonprofit organization such as a business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency. The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulations (including the jurisdiction's corporate law) and the organization's own constitution and by-laws. These authorities may specify the number of members of the board, how they are to be chosen, and how often they are to meet. In an organization with voting members, the board is accountable to, and may be subordinate to, the organization's full membership, which usually elect the members of the board. In a stock corporation, non-executive directors are elected by the shareholders, and the board has ultimate responsibility for the management of the corporation. In nations with codetermination (such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Robbie Gibb
Sir Robbie Paul Gibb (born September 1964) is a British public relations professional, political advisor and broadcast journalist. Robbie Gibb, brother of Conservative MP Nick Gibb, was the head of the BBC's political programme output before leaving the BBC in July 2017 to become Director of Communications at 10 Downing Street for Theresa May. Early life Gibb was born in September 1964 and attended Royal Holloway, University of London. Like his brother Nick, in his early years Gibb was recruited and trained by the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists, a Russian anticommunist organisation. Journalism career Gibb is a former editor of the BBC's ''Sunday Politics'' and ''Daily Politics'' programmes. Gibb was head of BBC Westminster, in overall charge of the BBC's political programme output – ''Daily and Sunday Politics'', '' The Andrew Marr Show'', ''This Week'' and Radio 4's ''Westminster Hour''. Prior to joining the political team at Westminster he was deputy ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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June Sarpong
June Konadu Sarpong (born 31 May 1977) is a British television presenter and executive. She was a panellist on ITV's ''Loose Women'' and is currently a panellist on the Sky News programme ''The Pledge''. In November 2019, Sarpong was appointed as the BBC's first Director of Creative Diversity. Early life and education Sarpong was born in Newham, London, to Ghanaian parents Thelma ( Amihere) and Samuel Sarpong. She was educated at Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone and Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow. Career She began her media career with the radio station Kiss 100 around 1997. and later became an MTV UK and Ireland presenter (MTV ''Dance Floor Chart''). In 2001, she appeared on '' Lily Savage's Blankety Blank'' (ITV). As one of the female faces of Channel 4’s daytime teen-aimed strand T4 for nine years, she interviewed Tony Blair for a T4 special, ''When Tony Met June'', which aired in January 2005. She runs her own production company, Lipgloss Produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Rhodri Talfan Davies
Rhodri Talfan Davies (born 9 February 1971) is a Welsh television executive. He is Director of Nations at the BBC and is the director of BBC Cymru Wales. He is a former journalist and communications executive. Personal life and education Davies was born in Cardiff in 1971 to Elizabeth Siân Vaughan Yorath and Geraint Talfan Davies, the chairman of Welsh National Opera and a former controller of BBC Cymru Wales. His grandfather Aneirin Talfan Davies (1909–1980) was a poet, broadcaster and literary critic. Educated at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, Cardiff, and Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, Davies went on to study as an undergraduate at Jesus College, Oxford (BA Hons), and received a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University. Career Davies's career began with a short tenure as a sub-editor at the '' Western Mail'' in 1993. In the same year he joined the BBC as a news trainee, where he remained as a news reporter and producer until 1999. Davies was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Studios
BBC Studios is a British content company. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide. BBC Studios creates, develops, produces, distributes, broadcasts, finances and sells content around the world, returning around £200m to the BBC annually in dividends and content investment. Overview BBC Studios Productions brings together the majority of BBC Television's former in-house production departments; Factual, Drama, Comedy, (both combined as Scripted in the new division), Entertainment, and Music & Events. BBC Children's production is set to move into BBC Studios Productions from April 2022 to increase the potential of taking British children's content to the wider global market, along with BBC Three's in-house production team, which is joining from April 2021. BBC News and BBC Radio remain separate internal production divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Charlotte Moore (TV Executive)
Charlotte Alexandra Moore (born 19 June 1968)"Charlotte Moore" Companies in the UK is a British television executive who is the BBC's Chief Content Officer. She was appointed to this role in September 2020, having been Director of Content since early 2016 when she assumed responsibility for all of the BBC's television channels after the controller posts were abolished. Moore was Controller of from 2013 to 2016, in the position of which she was reported to be in charge of a budget of more than £1 billion. Moore has, since 2005, been a trustee of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Northern Ireland Executive
The Northern Ireland Executive is the devolved government of Northern Ireland, an administrative branch of the legislature – the Northern Ireland Assembly. It is answerable to the assembly and was initially established according to the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, which followed the Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement). The executive is referred to in the legislation as the Executive Committee of the assembly and is an example of consociationalist ("power-sharing") government. The Northern Ireland Executive consists of the First Minister and deputy First Minister and various ministers with individual portfolios and remits. The main assembly parties appoint most ministers in the executive, except for the Minister of Justice who is elected by a cross-community vote. It is one of three devolved governments in the United Kingdom, the others being the Scottish and Welsh governments. In January 2017, the then deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Elan Closs Stephens
Dame Elan Closs Stephens (' Roberts; born 16 June 1948) is a Welsh educator and Wales' representative on the BBC Board. She specialises in cultural and broadcasting policy. She also serves as a non-executive director of the Welsh Government's Board, led by the Permanent Secretary. She is Pro Chancellor of Aberystwyth University. Born in Talysarn in the Nantlle Valley, Gwynedd to William Jones Roberts and Mair ( Closs) Roberts, she was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle and Somerville College, Oxford. Stephens is Emeritus Professor of Communications and Creative Industries at Aberystwyth University’s Department of Theatre Film and Television. She also acts as Director of Enterprise and Knowledge Transfer to enable research projects with industry partners. In 2020, she was appointed Pro Chancellor of Aberystwyth University. In 1998, the Department for Culture Media and Sport appointed Stephens chair of the S4C Authority, which was renewed for a second term until 2006. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Muriel Gray
Muriel Janet Gray FRSE (born 30 August 1958) is a Scottish author, broadcaster and journalist. She came to public notice as an interviewer on Channel 4's alternative pop-show ''The Tube'', and then appeared as a regular presenter on BBC radio. Gray has written for ''Time Out'', the '' Sunday Herald'' and '' The Guardian'', among other publications, as well as publishing successful horror novels. She was the first woman to have been Rector of the University of Edinburgh and is the first female chair of the board of governors at Glasgow School of Art. Personal life Born in East Kilbride, Gray is of partly Jewish ancestry. She presented a documentary for Channel 4 tracing her Jewish roots on her mother's side, entitled ''The Wondering Jew'' (1996), in which she discovered her maternal line descended from what is now Moldova. She is married to television producer Hamish Barbour and they have three children. In 1997, their daughter nearly drowned in a garden pond, which left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ian Hargreaves
Ian Richard Hargreaves CBE (born 18 June 1951 in Burnley) is Professor Emeritus (formerly Prof Digital Economy) at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Career His career in British journalism includes several beats at the ''Financial Times'', as well as Directorship of BBC News & Current Affairs, Editorship of ''The Independent'', and Editorship of the ''New Statesman''. In October 2010 he was invited to head an independent commission to consider "how the Intellectual Property framework supports growth and innovation" by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron. The resulting report was published in May 2011. The government declared its intention to implement the review's findings, which include a more flexible approach to copyright, in August 2011. Hargreaves was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to the creative economy and higher education. In 2015, he became co-founderof Creative Cardiff, with Justin Lewis. Personal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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BBC Trust
The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017. It was operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies, and its stated aim was to make decisions in the best interests of licence-fee payers. On 12 May 2016, it was announced in the House of Commons that, under the next royal charter, the regulatory functions of the BBC Trust were to be transferred to Ofcom. The trust was established by the 2007 BBC Charter, which came into effect on 1 January in that year. The trust, and a formalised Executive Board, replaced the former Board of Governors. The decision to establish the trust followed the Hutton Inquiry, which had heavily criticised the BBC for its coverage of the death of David Kelly; Labour's political opponents, as well as large numbers of its supporters, saw the Hutton Inquiry as a whitewash, designed to deflect criticism from Tony Blair's government. In summary, the main roles of the Trust are i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Damon Buffini
Sir Damon Marcus Buffini (born 1962) is a British businessman and governor of the Wellcome Trust. He was formerly head of the private equity company Permira. Education and early life Born in Leicester in 1962, the son of an African-American serviceman and a British woman, he was educated in Leicester and graduated with a degree in Law from St John's College, Cambridge, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Career Buffini worked for L.E.K. Consulting, and under the firm's scholarship scheme undertook an MBA from Harvard Business School. On return to the UK he joined Imperial Group working as a management consultant, before being recruited by Jon Moulton (now head of rival firm Better Capital), in 1988 to join Schroders leveraged buyout team, known then as Schroder Ventures Europe. Buffini became a partner in 1992, and was promoted to managing partner of the UK business in 1999, and managing partner in 2000, just before he led a management buyout group and renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |