Joan Ingram (born March 1959), is a Scottish broadcaster, journalist and media company director.

Education

Ingram attended Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes before studying at the

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, obtaining an MA Honours degree in politics and jurisprudence in 1981. She later studied at the

University of Aberdeen The University of Aberdeen (abbreviated ''Aberd.'' in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom), post-nominals; ) is a public university, public research university in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1495 when William Elphinstone, Bis ...

where she obtained an MBA in 1996. In 2012 she completed an executive education programme at the Harvard Business School in Boston, MA.

Career

Ingram began her broadcasting career in 1982 at

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. Within a year, she joined

Grampian Television Grampian Television was the original name of the Channel 3 service for the north of Scotland founded in 1961 and which, decades later, was merged with the Central Belt channel STV. The northern region's coverage area includes the Northern Isle ...

(now ''STV North'') as a reporter and presenter for the BAFTA-winning nightly news programme ''

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'' and various documentaries. Whilst at Grampian, Ingram also presented political and current affairs programming including ''

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'' and ''Scottish Question Time''. Ingram left the station in 1996 and continued to freelance as a television broadcaster until 1999, presenting STV's coverage of the new Scottish parliament. In 1993, she set up her own Aberdeen-based change management, communications and media company, ''The Fifth Business''. The company expanded its operations to

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and

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. It was acquired by ERM in 2019. Ingram served on the board of Aberdeen Sports Village for six years from 2009. In 2013, Ingram was invited by the charity Breakthrough T1D to sit on the 20-strong Type-1 Voices committee, based in New York, which influences medical research and manages $500million in charitable giving for diabetes. She served for three years. From 2012 to 2018, Ingram served two terms on the independent NHS Pay Review Body, an eight-person committee that advises UK governments on pay-related issues.

Awards

Ingram was a runner-up in the Association of Scottish Businesswomen's Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000. She was appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours List of 2018 for her services in the field of healthcare.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ingram, Joan Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Alumni of the University of Dundee Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire Scottish television presenters Scottish women television presenters STV News newsreaders and journalists Scottish businesspeople Scottish broadcasters 1959 births