Appendix: Curriculum vitae
| NON-EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
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| 2011 - |
Non-executive member, then Deputy Chair of Ofcom;
(Chair of the Remuneration Committee; Acting Chair of Audit & Risk Committee, 2012/13; Member of Nations Committee; Non-Exec lead on spectrum issues and responsible for Board evaluation)
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| 2012 - |
Chair of the School Teachers' Pay Review Body;
(restructuring teachers' pay and conditions)
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| 2004 - 11
| Non-Executive Director of the Competition Commission
(Senior Non-exec Member & Chair of the Remuneration Committee);
previously Part-time Member of the Monopolies & Mergers Commission;
(served on mergers, dominance & price referrals in utilities, retail, transport & pharmaceuticals sectors)
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| 2006 - 11
| Member of the BBC Trust
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| 2005 - 11
| Member, Higher Education Funding Council for England
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| 2004 - 06
| Chair Higher Education Regulation Review Group 2004-6;
(negotiated concordat to cut regulatory burdens on HEls)
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| 2004 - 08
| Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life
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| 2004 - 08
| Governor and Member of the WeIlcome Trust
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| 2004 - 06
| Non-Executive Director GCap Media plc; (Member Audit Committee)
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| EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
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| 2006 - 12
| Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge
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| 2000 - 03
| Chief Executive, Independent Television Commission;
(designed successful competitive tender to rescue Freeview when ITV Digital went into administration; licensing commercial tv services, content regulation, reformed Terms of Trade for Indies, leading to their subsequent growth; restructured organisation for merger with Ofcom and worked on Comms Act.)
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| 1993 - 00
| Main Board Director, BBC;
Policy & Planning; (liaison with UK government and EU; negotiated 1996 Charter & Agreement & licence fee settlements in 1991, '96 and 2000; informed broadcasting legislation & EU Directives; strategy & policy responsibility; led change management, taking BBC digital in online & multichannel world; line managed technical policy staff and R&D; led launch of BBC digital satellite services in 1997)
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| 1987 - 92
| Head of Policy, BBC (established strategy & policy resource)
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| 1983 - 87
| Deputy Secretary then Secretary of the BBC
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| 1970s - |
Part of the founding team at the BBC/Open University;
Producer and journalist; attachments as producer on Tonight and presenting the Today programme.
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