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The New OFCOM Board
Lord Currie of Marylebone
( 55) was appointed chairman of OFCOM in August. He will receive
£133.000 for a four day a week commitment. Lord Currie
is currently Professor of Business Economics and Dean of Cass Business
School (formerly City University Business School, London) and intends to
continue his link with the School.
He was formerly Deputy Dean and Professor
of Economics at London Business School and holder of the School’s Sir James
Ball Chair in Regulation. He is non-executive chairman of Coredeal
MTS and a former non-executive director of the Abbey National. He has held
visiting appointments at the IMF and Bank of England and served on the
Gas and Electricity Markets Authority, the Treasury’s Panel of Independent
Forecasters and the Retail Price Index Advisory Committee.
Four other members of the Board were appointed
in October. They will each be expected to commit two days a week
to the board for which they will receive £30,000 per annum.
They are:
Umila Banerjee
(55) appointed for five years. Currently non-executive director of
Channel 4 (which she will give up), Commissioner for Judicial Appointments,
non-executive director of the Cabinet Office management board and of the
Sector Skills Development Agency, member of the Nurses Pay Review Board
and trustee of the Carnegie UK Trust. She previously spent 25 years with
BT, culminating as Director of BT Products and Services Division, before
becoming Senior Vice President of ICO Global Communications.
David Edmonds
(58) appointed for three years. Currently Director General of OFTEL,
he is also a member of the Radiocommunications Agency Steering Board,
a Board Member of English partnerships and of the Social Market Foundation,
Council Member and Treasurer of Keele University. He previously held
various Civil Service posts at the Department of the Environment.
Richard Hooper
(63) appointed for three years. Currently chairman of the Radio Authority
and Managing Partner Hooper Communications, Senior Non-Executive Director
of Informa Group plc, non-Executive Director of Superscape plc and of UK
eUniversities Worldwide, and member of the advisory board of Terra Firma
Capital Partners. He previously worked for nine years at the BBC
and for five years at BT.
Sara Nathan (46) appointed for four
years. Currently Non-Executive Member of the Radio Authority, the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, Criminal Injuries Compensation
Appeal Panel and Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services
Authority. Her previous appointments include Editorships
of Channel 4 News and The Magazine, Radio 5 Live, and Chief Assistant to
the Editor of News and Current Affairs, Radio 4.
Ian Hargreaves
(50) will be appointed to the Board at a later date, following a recommendation
from the Joint Scrutiny Committee that the Board should be larger.
Currently Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff University,
Professor Hargreaves will also take up the position of Group Director,
Corporate Affairs at BAA plc in January. He is a regular contributor
to Radio 4, the Financial Times and other papers, a trustee of the thinktank
Demos and a former member of the Chancellor’s Social Investment Task Force.
His former appointments include Editorships of New Statesman and the Independent,
Deputy Editor, Financial Times and Director of BBC News & Current
Affairs.
The framework under which the Board of
OFCOM will work was established in the Paving Bill that received Royal
Assent in July. One of the first jobs for the new Board will be to
appoint a Chief Executive to start early in 2003. The appointment
will be subject to approval by the Secretaries of State for Culture and
Trade.
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