Joan Ingram (broadcaster)

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Joan Ingram OBE
BornMarch 1959
Alma mater University of Dundee
Known forBroadcaster and businesswoman
Television Crossfire and Scotland 500

Joan Ingram (born March 1959), [1] OBE is a Scottish broadcaster, journalist and media company director.

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Education

Ingram attended Auchmuty High School in Glenrothes before studying at the University of Dundee, obtaining an MA Honours degree in politics and jurisprudence in 1981. [2] She later studied at the University of Aberdeen where she obtained an MBA [3] in 1996. In 2012 she completed an executive education programme at the Harvard Business School in Boston, MA.

Career

Ingram began her broadcasting career in 1982 at Radio Tay. Within a year, she joined Grampian Television (now STV North) as a reporter and presenter for the BAFTA-winning nightly news programme North Tonight and various documentaries. [4] Whilst at Grampian, Ingram also presented political and current affairs programming including Crossfire and Scottish Question Time. Ingram left the station in 1996 and continued to freelance as a television broadcaster until 1999, presenting STV's coverage of the new Scottish parliament.

In 1993, she set up her own Aberdeen-based change management, communications and media company, The Fifth Business. [5] [6] The company expanded its operations to Houston, London and The Hague. [7] It was acquired by ERM in 2019. [8] [9]

She served on the board of Aberdeen Sports Village for six years from 2009. From 2012 to 2018, Ingram served two terms on the independent NHS Pay Review Body, [10] an eight-person committee that advises UK governments on pay-related issues.

Awards

Ingram was a runner-up in the Association of Scottish Businesswomen's Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000. [11]

She was appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours List of 2018 [12] [13] for her services in the field of healthcare.

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References

  1. ↑ "Joan INGRAM personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Joan Ingram OBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Joan Ingram OBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  4. ↑ North Tonight#Presenters
  5. ↑ "THE FIFTH BUSINESS (SCOTLAND) LIMITED filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  6. ↑ "Joan Ingram OBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  7. ↑ "The Fifth Business joins the ELITE of London Stock Exchange – Aberdeen Business News". aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  8. ↑ Amara (11 October 2019). "Weekly merger, acquisition, deal update: October 11". Consulting - Specifying Engineer. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "ERM acquires O&G change management & comms specialist". Environment Analyst Global. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  10. ↑ Beattie, Kieran (30 December 2017). "Aberdeen director made CBE after spending years supporting frontline healthcare for patients". Press and Journal. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  11. ↑ "Joan Ingram OBE". GOV.UK. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  12. ↑ "Ms Joan INGRAM, (Mrs. Logan) | Order of the British Empire". The Gazette, m.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  13. ↑ Symon, Ken (29 December 2017). "Banker Susan Rice named a Dame in the New Year's Honours". businessInsider. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
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