Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall is a British equestrian, an Olympian, and a member of the British royal family. She is the daughter of Anne, Princess Royal, and Captain Mark Phillips. She is a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and a niece of King Charles III. She was born sixth in the line of succession to the British throne and is now 21st.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) licensed and regulated commercial television services in the United Kingdom between 1 January 1991 and 28 December 2003.
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, is a British Conservative Party politician and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She became a member of the House of Lords in 2005.
The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom.
Claire Margaret Ward is a Labour Party politician. She served as the Member of Parliament for Watford from 1997 to 2010, and was a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice from 2009 to 2010.
The Board of Governors of the BBC was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It consisted of twelve people who together regulated the BBC and represented the interests of the public. It existed from 1927 until it was replaced by the BBC Trust on 1 January 2007.
Orla Guerin MBE is an Irish journalist. She is a Senior International correspondent working for BBC News broadcasting around the world and across the UK.
Sir Anthony Michael Vaughan Salz is a British solicitor. He sat on the Board of Governors of the BBC from 1 August 2004, after the resignation of the former Vice Chairman, Lord Ryder, and was Acting Chairman in 2006 following the resignation of Michael Grade as BBC Chairman on 28 November 2006, Salz became Acting Chairman, and continued in this position until the BBC Trust succeeded the Governors on 1 January 2007.
Ebony-Jewel Cora-Lee Camellia Rosamond Rainford-Brent is an English former cricketer who is now a commentator and Director of Women's Cricket at Surrey. She was the first black woman to play for England. She was also captain of the Surrey women's team.
The Incorporated Television Company (ITC), or ITC Entertainment as it was referred to in the United States, was a British company involved in production and distribution of television programmes.
Edwina Hart, MBE is a Welsh Labour politician who represented the constituency of Gower from the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales (Senedd) in 1999 until 2016. Hart served in the Welsh Government as a cabinet minister for the full 17 years she was an AM including as Minister for Health and Social Services from 2007 to 2011 and as Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science from 2011 to 2016.
The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017. It was operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies, and its stated aim was to make decisions in the best interests of licence-fee payers. On 12 May 2016, it was announced in the House of Commons that, under the next royal charter, the regulatory functions of the BBC Trust were to be transferred to Ofcom.
Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark is an educator, educationist, academic, and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was for 25 years a working member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university, became the first woman in history to run a British university.
Sir Michael Thomas Lyons, is the non-executive chairman of the English Cities Fund and Participle Ltd, and a former Chairman of the BBC Trust.
Ruth Beatrice Henig, Baroness Henig CBE, DL is a British academic historian and Labour Party politician.
Dame Elizabeth Anne Lucy Forgan, DBE is an English journalist, and radio and television executive.
Dame Patricia Anne Hodgson, is a British broadcasting executive, competition regulator, and academic administrator. She is a board member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, and served as Chair of Ofcom from 2014 to 2017. She is also a trustee of the Policy Exchange and is Chair of the School Teachers' Review Body. From 2006 to 2012 she was Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Geraint Talfan Davies OBE DL is a Welsh journalist and broadcaster, and a long-serving trustee and chairman of many Welsh civic, arts, media and cultural organisations.
Dame Elan Closs Stephens, is a non-executive director and member for Wales on the BBC Board since 2017, and became its acting chair from 27 June 2023. She specialises in cultural and broadcasting policy. She is also the Electoral Commissioner for Wales; Pro Chancellor of Aberystwyth University; and chair of the UNESCO’s International Prize for the Creative Economy jury.
