Richard Hooper
CBE is a former UK civil servant. He was Deputy Chairman of
OFCOM
The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.
Ofcom has wide-ranging powers acros ...
between 2002 and 2005.
Career
His began his career as a radio and TV producer in the
BBC, and was a founder of the
Open University. Between 1972 and 1977 he was Director of NDPCAL,
National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning, a government funded project that ran from 1973 until 1977, costing £2.5M and supporting some 35 projects covering schools, colleges, universities, industrial and military training.
[http://www.edtechhistory.org.uk/history/the_1970s/ndpcal.html] At
BT he ran the world's first commercial videotex service,
Prestel. He ran the pan-European satellite television channel Super Channel owned by the
ITV companies. He was Chairman of the Radio Authority from 2000 to 2003, Deputy Chairman of Ofcom from 2002 to 2005, and Chairman of
Informa
Informa plc is a British publishing, business intelligence, and exhibitions group based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
It has offices in 43 countries and around 11,000 ...
from 2005 to 2007.
He carried out the independent review of the
Royal Mail
, kw, Postya Riel, ga, An Post Ríoga
, logo = Royal Mail.svg
, logo_size = 250px
, type = Public limited company
, traded_as =
, foundation =
, founder = Henry VIII
, location = London, England, UK
, key_people = * Keith Williams ...
for
Peter Mandelson and
Vince Cable which recommended privatisation.
He currently is Chair of the
Broadband Stakeholder Group and the Copyright Hub Launch Group, which came out of the review of copyright licensing Richard did for Vince Cable in 2011/12. He is senior independent director on the boards of
hibu plc (formerly Yell Group plc) and
VocaLink Holdings Ltd.
Personal life
He is married to the Australian writer and historian,
Meredith Hooper, and lives in North London. He is the father of film director
Tom Hooper.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
BBC radio producers
BBC television producers
British Telecom people
ITV people
{{UK-gov-bio-stub