ADDRESSING THE LONG-TERM CHALLENGES FOR UK MEDIA WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY SAÏD BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PRODUCED BY SPEAKERS STEVEN BARNETT, PROFESSOR OF MAGNUS BROOKE, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND COMMUNICATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF REGULATORY AFFAIRS, ITV PLC WESTMINSTER Magnus Brooke is director of policy and regulatory affairs at Steven Barnett is professor of communications and an ITV plc with overall responsibility for ITV’s policy and regulatory established writer, author and commentator, who specialises strategy and its interaction with UK and European regulators, in media policy, broadcasting, regulation, and journalism government and the European institutions. Magnus is a ethics. He has acted several times as specialist adviser to the director of a number of ITV group and joint venture businesses House of Lords Select Committee on Communications and as well as a non-executive director of Digital UK, Freesat and was twice called to give oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. the Broadcast Advertising Board of Finance (which raises the Over the last 30 years, he has advised ministers and shadow funds for the self regulation of broadcast advertising by the ministers, given evidence to parliamentary committees ASA). Prior to joining ITV in July 2006 he was head of the BBC and the European Parliament, and has directed numerous director general’s office for three years, first for Greg Dyke research projects on the structure, funding, and regulation and subsequently for Mark Thompson. Before that, Magnus of communications in the UK and other countries. He is worked for three years as a regulatory and competition lawyer currently running an 18 month AHRC fellowship project on in the policy and legal division of the BBC. Magnus began his developing new policy approaches to media plurality. He is on career as a solicitor specialising in regulatory and competition the editorial and management boards of British Journalism law at city solicitors Ashursts where he also trained. Magnus Review, was for many years an Observer columnist and is read Social and Political Sciences and History at St Catharine’s the author or co-author of a number of books. His last book, College Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor at the College of The Rise and Fall of Television Journalism, was published by Law in London. Bloomsbury Academic in November 2011. SALLY BROUGHTON-MICOVA, RESEARCH PATRICK BARWISE, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OFFICER, LSE MEDIA POLICY PROJECT – MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING, LONDON Sally Broughton-Micova is the research officer for the Media BUSINESS SCHOOL Policy Project at London School of Economics and Political Patrick Barwise is emeritus professor of manage ment Science, where she also completed her PhD. Her research and marketing at London Business School, chairman of focuses on audiovisual media policy in Europe, and she has Which?, and a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Reuters published on topics such as public service broadcasting, Institute for the Study of Journalism. He joined IBS in 1976 content quotas and cultural production, minority language after an early career at IBM and has published widely on broadcasting, and digitalisation. Before entering academia management, marketing and media. she was head of media development and spokesperson for the OSCE Mission to Skopje for several years, and prior to DAME COLETTE BOWE, CHAIR, OFCOM that worked in other international organisations implementing conflict mitigation and post-conflict stabilisation media Colette was appointed Ofcom chair in March 2009. She projects. She also lectures on media economics and markets began her career at the Department of Trade and Industry at the School of Journalism and Public Relations in Skopje. and subsequently worked at the Independent Broadcasting Authority, the Securities and Investment Board, as chief executive of the Personal Investment Authority and as MARTIN CAVE, VISITING PROFESSOR, IMPERIAL executive chairman of the European Asset Management COLLEGE BUSINESS SCHOOL Business at Robert Fleming. Colette chaired Ofcom’s Martin Cave is a visiting professor at Imperial College Business Consumer Panel from its inception in 2003 to December School and a deputy chair of the Competition Commission. 2007. She is a vice president of the Royal Television Society Formerly he was a professor at Warwick Business School and and a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. at Brunel University. He specialises in regulatory economics, #OMC2014 #OMC2014 especially of the communications sector, and has written on Committee, and also helped run the Global Communications spectrum policy and on broadcast and telecommunications Consortium at London Business School. regulation. He has also advised the UK and other governments and several regulatory bodies on these matters. JEAN GONIÉ, DIRECTOR OF PRIVACY POLICY, EUROPE, THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA, DAVID ELSTEIN, CHAIRMAN, OPENDEMOCRACY. MICROSOFT NET AND BROADCASTING POLICY GROUP Based in Brussels, Jean was previously government affairs David Elstein has spent over 40 years in the TV production manager at Microsoft France (from 2005 to 2010) and director and broadcasting industries, serving as chief executive of for privacy, EU Affairs from 2010 to July 2012. Prior to joining Channel 5, director of programmes at Thames TV, head Microsoft, he was a legal adviser to the French data protection of programming at BSkyB, managing director at Brook authority (CNIL) and worked in the legal department of the Productions and Primetime Productions, and chairman of Internet Rights Forum (a semi-government internet regulatory Sparrowhawk Media, DCD Media PLC, Screen Digest, The body in France). He also served on the staff of a member of Broadcasting Policy Group, The British Screen Advisory the French national assembly and of a senator. He lectured Council and The National Film and Television School. He on internet law and data protection issues for many years spent five years on the board of Virgin Media, and was one at University of Paris I Sorbonne, Sciences Po Paris and the of the earliest suppliers of programmes to Channel 4 as an CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers). Jean independent producer. He is chairman of Open Democracy, holds an advisory role as conseiller du commerce extérieur and writes regularly for that website and for various national de la France, promoting France’s trade and innovation in the newspapers on media issues. world. He is also the chair of the French chapter of the internet association of privacy professionals, Knowledgenet. CLAIRE ENDERS, FOUNDER, ENDERS ANALYSIS Claire founded Enders Analysis in 1997. She is one of the most TONY HALL, DIRECTOR GENERAL, BBC experienced analysts and forecasters in UK and European Tony Hall was appointed director general of the BBC in media and telecoms, with more than 25 years in strategy November 2012. Prior to this, Tony was Chief Executive of development and market research in these sectors. Claire is the Royal Opera House from April 2001 until April 2013. He particularly renowned for her independent views and insights first joined the BBC in 1973 and during a 28-year career regarding cyclical and structural impacts on companies in at the corporation he held roles including senior producer the media, telecoms, technology and retail sectors. Enders at World At One, assistant editor of the Nine O’Clock News, Analysis is one of the leading independent research companies output editor for Newsnight, culminating as chief executive of in the UK and focuses on research, analysis and specialist BBC News from 1996 to 2001. While at the BBC he launched expertise across the UK and European sectors. Radio 5 Live, BBC News 24, BBC News Online and BBC Parliament. He was appointed a CBE in 2005 and in 2010 ROBIN FOSTER, FOUNDER MEMBER, was made a life peer with the title Baron Hall of Birkenhead. COMMUNICATIONS CHAMBERS Robin Foster is an independent adviser on media and RT HON HARRIET HARMAN MP, SHADOW communications policy and regulation, and a founder SECRETARY OF STATE FOR CULTURE, MEDIA AND member of Media Consultants, Communications Chambers. SPORT AND SHADOW DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER He was previously director of strategy at Ofcom and the BBC, and a member of the last government’s Digital Britain Harriet Harman QC MP is shadow secretary of state for steering board. As well as a wide range of consulting work Culture, Media and Sport, shadow deputy prime minister for clients such as the BBC, BT, ITV, Sky and Channel 4, he and deputy leader of the Labour party. A trained solicitor, has recently advised the House of Lords Communications Harriet was appointed secretary of state for social security SPEAKERS and minister for women when Labour entered government between 1999 and 2004 he was a member of the European in 1997. She introduced the minimum income guarantee Parliament. He is chairman of the CN Group, an independent and the national childcare strategy. In 2001, Harriet was local media business based in Carlisle. appointed solicitor general and led a drive within government to make tackling domestic violence a priority. After the 2005 general election, Harriet was appointed minister for justice. JIM KILLOCK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OPEN She also served in government as leader of the House of RIGHTS GROUP Commons, secretary of state for equalities and minister for Since joining Open Rights group in January 2009, Jim women, where she brought forward the Equality Bill, now the has led campaigns against ‘three strikes’ and the Digital Equality Act. Prior to her appointment as shadow secretary Economy Act, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop of state for culture, media and sport she served as shadow on UK users, and against pervasive government internet secretary of state for international development. surveillance. Jim is a trustee of Freeukgen, the volunteer project to digitise genealogical records, and sits on the governance board of Create, the UK’s research centre for JANE HUMPHREYS, HEAD OF SPECTRUM copyright and new business models in the creative economy.