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Nigel Chapman
Director, BBC World Service (Chair)
Responsible for the overall editorial leadership and management of BBC World Service. He is the BBC World Service Accounting Officer.
Behrouz Afagh
Head of Asia Pacific region
Responsible for broadcasts and future media in Azeri, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Persian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Burmese, Chinese, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Tamil and Sinhala.
Richard Burdon
Director, Human Resources
Responsible for HR strategy and delivery of HR services.
Nikki Clarke
Head of Americas & Europe Region
Responsible for broadcasts and future media in Albanian, English for North America and the Caribbean, Macedonian, Portuguese for Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish for Latin America, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Mike Cronk
Controller, Future Media, Technology & Distribution
Responsible for operations and development across future media, technology and BBC World Service distribution arrangements.
Jim Egan
Controller of Strategy & Business Development
Responsible for setting corporate strategy for BBC World Service and across Global News and for overseeing teams of Business Development professionals working to extend the reach of the BBC's international news services on radio, television, online and mobile devices around the world.
Sanjay Nazerali
Controller, Marketing, Communications & Audiences
Responsible for marketing, publicity, audiences and market research.
Lindsey North
Controller of Legal & Rights
Responsible for legal and rights advice across BBC Global News division.
John Renner
Director, Property & Development
Responsible for BBC World Service's accommodation.
Hugh Saxby
Head of Governance & Public Affairs
Responsible for governance, public affairs, accountability and internal communications.
Richard Thomas
Chief Operating Officer and director of finance
Responsible for the financial and budgetary management of BBC World Service.
Jerry Timmins
Head of Africa & Middle East Region
Responsible for broadcasts and future media in Arabic, French, Hausa, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Portuguese, Somali, Swahili and English for Africa.
Gwyneth Williams
Director, English Networks & News
Responsible for news and all programming on the English World Service networks.
Lesley Granger, Director, Human Resources, retired on 30 June 2008. Richard Burdon joined on 12 May 2008. Alan Booth, Controller, Marketing, Communications & Audiences, left on 31 July 2007. Sanjay Nazerali joined on 1 September 2007. Phil Harding, Director English Networks & News, retired on 17 September 2007. Gwyneth Williams joined on 18 June 2007. Alison Woodhams, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Finance, left on 30 September 2007. Richard Thomas joined on 28 April 2008.
The photographs above are of the permanently appointed members of the BBC World Service Management Board at the time of the Annual Review 2007/08 publication on 8 July 2008.
