Biographies

Group General Counsel & Secretary, BBC and non-executive director, BBC Worldwide

Nicholas Eldred is Group General Counsel and Secretary of the BBC, non-executive director of BBC Worldwide, director, BBC Commercial Holdings, director, BBC Studios and Post Production, chair, BBC Commercial Holdings Audit Committee and trustee, BBC Children In Need.

As Group General Counsel of the BBC, Nicholas provides legal advice to senior management and the BBC Trust, manages and co-ordinates BBC Legal and provides professional leadership to lawyers across the BBC and its subsidiaries.

Nicholas joined the BBC in August 2001 from BT Cellnet (now 02UK) where he was director of legal and business affairs and company secretary. He was with BT Cellnet for six years, joining from BT where he was head of the mergers and acquisitions legal team.

Prior to that he was a corporate lawyer with city law firm Simmons & Simmons.

Nicholas qualified as a solicitor in 1987.