Tony Hall – Lord Hall of Birkenhead – Director General of the BBC between April 2013 and August 2020. He is the sixteenth director-general of the BBC.
Prior to that, Tony was Managing Director of the Royal Opera House from April 2001 to April 2013.
He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1973 and, during a 28-year career with the company, held positions as senior producer at World at One, deputy editor of Nine O’Clock News, editor-in-chief of Newsnight, and nevertheless became managing director of BBC News from 1996 to 2001.
At the BBC, he presented Radio Five Live, BBC News 2four, BBC News Online and BBC Parliament. He is vice-chairman of Channel Four Television and trustee of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Foundation Years Trust. Passionate about education and skills within the world. cultural industries, is the founding president of Creative
He appointed CBE in 2005 and in 2010 created a Life Peer under the name Baron Hall of Birkenhead. He has been a member of the Transversal Benches of the House of Lords.
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