BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2008/09

Mark Thompson

Director-General since June 2004. Chair of the Executive Board and the BBC Direction Group, made up of all the BBC’s divisional directors.

Mark Byford

Deputy Director-General. Board member since 1998. Chair of the Journalism Board. Chair Editorial Standards Board, Complaints Management Board, Learning Board and London 2012 Olympics Coordinating Group.

Zarin Patel

Chief Financial Officer since January 2005. Trustee of the BBC Pension Scheme and non-executive Director of BBC Worldwide Limited.

Caroline Thomson

Chief Operating Officer. Board member since May 2000. Trustee of the BBC Pension Scheme. Non-executive Director of Digital UK.

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Jana Bennett OBE

Director of Vision. Board member since April 2002. Non-executive Director of BBC Worldwide Limited.

Tim Davie

Director of Audio & Music since September 2008. Board member since April 2005.

Erik Huggers

Director of BBC Future Media & Technology. Board member since August 2008. Prior to this he was Group Controller, BBC FM&T.

John Smith

Chief Executive of BBC Worldwide Limited. Board member since 1997.

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Lucy Adams

Director of BBC People. Joined the BBC Board in June 2009 from Eversheds LLP where she was HR Director.

Sharon Baylay

Director of Marketing, Communications & Audiences. Joined the BBC Board in May 2009 from Microsoft, where she was General Manager of Microsoft Online Services
Division UK.

Marcus Agius

Appointed non-executive Director and Senior Independent Director in December 2006. Chairs the BBC Executive Board’s Remuneration Committee. Group Chairman of Barclays PLC. Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Chairman of the Foundation and Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Val Gooding CBE

Appointed non-executive Director in January 2008. Also non-executive board member of Standard Chartered and J Sainsbury, Advisory Board. Member of Warwick Business School, Trustee of the British Museum, non-executive director of the Lawn Tennis Association and Trustee of Rose Theatre.

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Dr Mike Lynch OBE

Appointed non-executive Director in January 2007. Technology entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Autonomy plc.

David Robbie

Appointed non-executive Director in January 2007. Chairs the BBC Executive Board’s Audit Committee. Group Finance Director at Rexam PLC. Trustee of Aldeburgh Music.

Dr Samir Shah OBE

Appointed non-executive Director in January 2007. Chief Executive of Juniper Communications Limited. Chair of the Runnymede Trust, Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Special Professor in Post-Conflict Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham. Chair of Screen West Midlands.

Robert Webb QC

Appointed non-executive Director in January 2007. Chairs the BBC Executive Board’s Fair Trading Committee. Appointed QC in 1988. Chairman of Autonomy Corporation plc and non-executive Director of the London Stock Exchange, Hakluyt & Co Ltd and of Argent Group plc. Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University.

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