The BBC Trust The Trustees 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 01 Sir Michael Lyons 02 Chitra Bharucha 03 Diane Coyle 04 Dermot Gleeson 05 Alison Hastings 06 Dame Patricia Hodgson DBE 07 Rotha Johnston 08 Janet Lewis-Jones 09 David Liddiment 10 Mehmuda Mian Pritchard 11 Jeremy Peat 12 Richard Tait CBE The words ‘Trust’ and ‘Trustee’ in this document are not used in a technical legal sense and are not intended to imply that members of the Trust are to be treated as trustees of property or subject to the law relating to Trusts or Trustees 12 | Part One:BBCAnnual Report and Accounts 2006/2007 01 Sir Michael Lyons Chairman Chairman since 1 May 2007. Chairman, English Cities Fund. Non-executive director of MouchelParkman plc, Wragge & Co, and SQW Ltd. Former Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council; Nottinghamshire County Council and Wolverhampton Borough Council. Former Deputy Chairman and Acting Chairman, Audit Commission. Former Professor of Public Policy, Birmingham University. Led the Lyons Inquiry into the functions and funding of local government. Former non-executive director, Central Television; former Chairman, ITV Regional Advisory Council. Governor, Royal Shakespeare Company, and (until October 2007) Chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. 02 Chitra Bharucha Vice-Chairman Acting Chairman from November 2006 to April 2007. Chairs BBC Trust Audiences and Performance, and Remuneration and Appointments Committees. Member of various public bodies including Chair, Fitness to Practise Adjudication Panels of the General Medical Council, and Chair, Advisory Committee on Animal Feedstuffs for the Food Standards Agency. Former consultant clinical haematologist and Deputy Director, Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service. Former member of the Independent Television Commission and the BBC Broadcasting Council for Northern Ireland. 03 Diane Coyle Chair, BBC Trust Public Value Test Steering Group. Economic consultant specialising in new technologies and globalisation. Director, Enlightenment Economics. Member of Competition Commission.Visiting Professor, Institute for Political and Economic Governance, University of Manchester. Former journalist.Widely published author and broadcaster on economics. 04 Dermot Gleeson Chair, BBC Trust Finance and Strategy Committee. Deputy Chairman of the BBC Pension Scheme Trustees. BBC Governor, 2000 to 2006. Chairman, M J Gleeson Group plc, having formerly been Chief Executive. Former Chairman, Major Contractors Group; former director of the Housing Corporation, and of the Construction Industry Training Board. Former Head, Home Affairs Section, Conservative Research Department; former member of Christopher Tugendhat’s cabinet in the European Commission. 05 Alison Hastings Trustee for England Media consultant. Former Editor, Newcastle Evening Chronicle. Former Head of Editorial Staff Development,Thomson Regional Newspapers. Former local newspaper journalist. Former member, Press Complaints Commission. 06 Dame Patricia Hodgson DBE Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. Governor and member,Wellcome Trust;member, Committee on Standards in Public Life; non-executive director, Competition Commission. Member of Higher Education Funding Council for England. Former Chief Executive, Independent Television Commission. BBC career included many senior positions including Director of Public Policy. Part of the founding team of the Open University. 07 Rotha Johnston Trustee for Northern Ireland Chair, BBC Trust Audience Council Steering Group. Entrepreneur in commerce and property. Partner, Johnston Partnership. Non-executive director, Allied Irish Bank (UK) plc; Deputy Chair, Invest Northern Ireland. Non-executive member, Northern Ireland Office Departmental Board. Former Director of Variety Foods (NI) Ltd and Local Enterprise Development Unit. Has held appointments in the Labour Relations Agency and the Northern Ireland Economic Council. 08 Janet Lewis-Jones Trustee for Wales Vice-President of the British Board of Film Classification.Trustee for Baring Foundation; Chairman, Membership Selection Panel, Glas Cymru Cyf (Welsh Water). Former Commissioner, Postal Services Commission.Former member,Welsh Fourth Channel Authority (S4C); Strategic Rail Authority; and of British Waterways Board. Former Vice-President, University of Wales (Lampeter). Former group Company Secretary,Welsh Water plc. Former civil servant and trained as barrister. 09 David Liddiment Creative Director of All3Media and Associate, The Old Vic Theatre Company. Broadcasting career includes Director of Programmes, ITV; Deputy Managing Director LWT; Director of Programmes, Granada TV; and Head of Entertainment Group,BBC TV. 10 Mehmuda Mian Pritchard A Commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, London and South East Region. Non-executive director of the NHS Litigation Authority. Former member of the Police Complaints Authority and the Office for the Supervision of Solicitors. Former solicitor in private practice in Birmingham and a former non-executive director of Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust. 11 Jeremy Peat Trustee for Scotland Chair, BBC Trust Fair Trading Policy and Appeals Committee; Chair, BBC Trust Market Impact Assessment Joint Steering Group; Chairman of the BBC Pension Trustees. BBC National Governor for Scotland, 2005 to 2006. Member of the Competition Commission. Director of the David Hume Institute. Former Group Chief Economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland. 12 Richard Tait CBE Chair, BBC Trust Editorial Standards Committee. Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies, Cardiff University. BBC Governor, 2004 to 2006. Former Editor-in-Chief of ITN and Editor, Channel 4 News. Former BBC editorships include Newsnight,The Money Programme, and the 1987 General Election results programme. Details of the Governors who served until 31 December 2006 are set out on page 47 Part One:BBCAnnual Report and Accounts 2006/2007 | 13