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BBC AR Front Part 1 Pp Ifc-7 Board of Governors Gavyn Davies OBE Chairman from Eastern Counties Radio until his Television’s Play For Today from 1978 Professor Merfyn Jones The BBC’s October 2001 and formerly Vice- appointment to the BBC. Born in to 1981. Born in 1943. National Governor for Wales since Chairman. Also chairs the Property 1949. January 2003. Member of the Councils Committee and the Remuneration Dermot Gleeson BBC Governor and Advisory Bodies Committee. Committee. Advisory Director at Dame Ruth Deech DBE BBC since November 2000. Member Historian and broadcaster. Professor Goldman Sachs International. Governor since October 2002. of the Audit Committee and the of Welsh History at the University Previously at Goldman Sachs he was Member of the Fair Trading Property Committee. Executive of Wales, Bangor, specialising in the Chairman of the Global Investment Compliance Committee. Honorary Chairman of the M J Gleeson Group modern and contemporary history Research Department and Chief Bencher of the Inner Temple; a Limited. A director of the Housing of society and politics in Wales. International Economist. He was Rhodes Trustee; Honorary Fellow Corporation from 1990 to 1995 Since 1998 he has been Pro-Vice a member of the Policy Unit at of the Society of Advanced Legal and of the Construction Industry Chancellor of the University. He is 10 Downing Street from 1974 to Studies; Principal of St Anne’s Training Board from 1995 to 2002. also the author of a number of 1979 and chaired an independent College, Oxford, and a Pro-Vice Former Head of the Home Affairs books and articles. Born in 1948. review into the future funding of the Chancellor of Oxford University. Section of the Conservative BBC in 1999. Born in 1950. Chairman of the Human Fertilisation Research Department and a Professor Fabian Monds CBE and Embryology Authority from member of Christopher Tugendhat’s The BBC’s National Governor for Rt Hon The Lord Ryder Vice- 1994 to 2002. Born in 1943. cabinet in the European Commission Northern Ireland since August 1999. Chairman since January 2002. from 1977 to 1979. Born in 1949. Member of the Programme Chairman of the Fair Trading Sir Richard Eyre CBE BBC Governor Complaints Committee, the Fair Compliance Committee and member from 1995 to May 2003, when he Baroness Hogg BBC Governor since Trading Compliance Committee of the Property Committee and the retired due to pressure of other work. February 2000. Member of the Audit and the Councils and Advisory Remuneration Committee. Privy Was a member of the Programme Committee, the Fair Trading Compliance Bodies Committee. Specialist in Councillor since 1990. Created life Complaints Committee. Freelance Committee and the Remuneration communications and information peer in 1997. MP for mid-Norfolk theatre, film and television director Committee. Sarah Hogg is non- systems. Chairman of Invest from 1983 to 1997. Parliamentary and writer. Directed and co-wrote executive Chairman of 3i Group plc Northern Ireland and of the Under Secretary at MAFF; Economic the Oscar-winning film Iris. After ten and Frontier Economics. She is a Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma Secretary to the Treasury; Paymaster years in regional theatre in Leicester, director of GKN, Carnival Corporation and Transformation in Omagh. Former General then Government Chief Edinburgh and Nottingham, became and Carnival plc. She is also a member Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University Whip from 1988 to 1995. Political Director of the Royal National of the House of Lords Economic of Ulster. Founding partner of Medical Secretary to Margaret Thatcher from Theatre from 1988 to 1997, directing Affairs Committee. Made a life peer and Scientific Computer Services 1975 to 1981. Director of Ipswich 27 productions and producing over in 1995. Born in 1946. Limited and WesternConnect Town FC since 1999. Chairman of 100 more. Series producer of BBC Limited. Born in 1940. 4 Annual Report and Accounts 2002/2003 Dame Pauline Neville-Jones DCMG Sir Robert Smith The BBC’s BBC International Governor since National Governor for Scotland Running the BBC January 1998. Chairs the Audit since August 1999. Chairman of the Committee and the Governors’ Programme Complaints Committee This report explains how the BBC delivered its World Service Consultative Group. and member of the Audit Member of the Programme Committee, Property Committee public service remit in 2002/2003.The BBC’s Board of Complaints Committee and the and Councils and Advisory Bodies Governors ensures that it does so by setting key Remuneration Committee. Chairman Committee. Chairman of BBC objectives, approving strategy and policy and monitoring of QinetiQ Group plc and Chairman Children in Need trustees. Chairman and assessing performance. of the Information Assurance of the Weir Group from July 2002 Advisory Council. From 1996 to and member of the Board of the 2000 she worked for NatWest British Council. Formerly Chief The Governors’ assessment of the BBC’s performance markets and its corporate advisory Executive and Vice-Chairman of against the objectives set by them for 2002/2003 arm, Hawkpoint Partners. A career Deutsche Asset Management; can be found on pages 8 to 15, while pages 20 to 53 member of the Diplomatic Service a director of the Financial Services provide an account of how BBC channels and services from 1963 to 1996, including a five- Authority, and Chairman of the have delivered the BBC’s public purposes over the year. year secondment in Brussels and Board of Trustees of the National three years as Political Director in Museums of Scotland. Born in 1944. the Foreign and Commonwealth The Governors also safeguard the BBC’s independence Office. Born in 1939. Ranjit Sondhi CBE BBC Governor and ensure compliance and public accountability. since August 1998 with special Fair trading, effective management and compliance with Angela Sarkis CBE BBC Governor responsibility for the English Regions. legal obligations and editorial guidelines are key areas; since October 2002. Member of the Chairman of the English National Programme Complaints Committee. Forum and Councils and Advisory detailed reports can be found on pages 68 to 81 and Independent consultant; non- Bodies Committee and member in the Broadcasting facts and figures section on pages executive director on the of the Programme Complaints 122 to 131.The BBC’s audited financial statements are Correctional Services Board at Committee. Senior Lecturer at the on pages 85 to 121.The Governors also undertake a the Home Office; a member of University of Birmingham’s Westhill variety of activities to ensure that they are in touch with the Interim House of Lords College.Trustee of the National Appointments Commission, and Gallery and Chairman of the Heart the views of audiences.This year the focus was on taste Adviser to the Department for of Birmingham Primary Care Trust. and decency, the relevance of BBC news and current Education and Skills on teacher Former Deputy Chairman of the affairs output, ensuring that proper account is taken of workload management. Chair of Commission for Racial Equality and the views of Asian audiences, and the public purposes the NCVO Diversity Project; a former member of the Independent of BBCi. Reports are provided on pages 58 to 63. member of the Active Community Broadcasting Authority and the Unit Advisory Panel at the Home Radio Authority. Born in 1950. Office, and Vice-President of the The Governors appoint the Director-General and, with African Caribbean Evangelical him, other members of the Executive Committee, and Alliance. A chief executive of the Roger Jones OBE served as the BBC’s determine their remuneration.The policy on Executive Church Urban Fund from 1996 National Governor for Wales from Committee remuneration is set out in detail on page 77. to January 2002. From 1996 to December 1996 until the expiry of his July 2002 she was a trustee of term of office in December 2002. BBC Children in Need. Born in 1955. The Director-General is the BBC’s chief executive and Sir Anthony Young served as a BBC editor-in-chief. BBC operations are run by the directors Governor from August 1998 until the of nine programming and broadcasting divisions and five The Board of Governors, from left expiry of his term of office in July 2002. professional services, and by the chief executives of the Standing: Lord Ryder, Baroness Hogg, BBC’s commercial services.They report to the Director- Professor Fabian Monds, Dermot Gleeson, Angela Sarkis, Sir Robert General and, together, make up the Executive Committee. Smith This proposes key objectives, develops strategy and Seated: Dame Ruth Deech, Ranjit policy in the light of set objectives, and operates all Sondhi, Gavyn Davies, Professor services within the strategic and policy framework Merfyn Jones, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones approved by the Governors. Below: Sir Richard Eyre Annual Report and Accounts 2002/2003 5.
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