Board of Commissioners - Biographies
Philip Graf CBE (Chairman)
Philip Graf is Chairman of CfBT Education Trust, a leading
education consultancy and service organisation, and an associate of
Praesta Partners LLP. He is also Vice Chairman of Crisis.
A Cambridge law graduate, Philip joined the Liverpool Daily Post
and Echo in 1983, which became Trinity International Holdings in
1985. He subsequently became Chief Executive in 1993. He became
Chief Executive of Trinity Mirror Group when the company merged
with the Mirror Group in 1999 – a position he held until February
2003. In 2003 he was asked by the Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport to carry out a review of the BBC’s online
activities.
He is a former Chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance
– the body which funds the Press Complaints Commission – and of the
Broadband Stakeholder Group – the advisory group to the Government
on the promotion of broadband services. He was also Vice Chairman
of Ofcom until the end of 2011.
Robin Dahlberg
Robin Dahlberg is the Vice Chair of the
Security Industry Authority. He is also a board member of the
Health and Safety Executive. He is Chair of Orbit Heart of England
Housing Association and a non-executive board member of Orbit Group
Ltd. He has worked extensively with Citizens Advice and is
currently a trustee of its Pension and Assurance Plan. He is also
the Treasurer of Jubilee Gardens Trust and was previously Vice
Chair of Waterloo Community Development Group and a trustee of
Florence Nightingale Museum Trust. He was formerly a board member
of the Local Better Regulation Office and a lay member of the
Advisory Panel on Standards for the Planning Inspectorate. His
earlier professional experience involved IT management systems and
internet security.
Ben Gunn CBE QPM (appointment extended till 31 March 2012)
Ben Gunn was Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire from 1993 to
2002. On his retirement he was appointed Chairman of the Joint
Jockey Club/British Horseracing Board Security Review which
reported on the Integrity of Horseracing in Great Britain in
2003.
In 2008 he jointly undertook a Review of the Integrity of
Professional Tennis worldwide and was a member of the Parry Expert
Panel which was set up by the Department of Culture Media and Sport
in 2009 to examine integrity in sports betting. He is a
non-executive Director of the British Horseracing Authority as well
as being the senior partner in Campbell Gunn Associates,
Consultants in sports' integrity; he is also a trustee of the
Child Victims of Crime Charity.
Bill Knight (appointment extended till 31 March 2012)
Bill Knight is a solicitor. He is Chairman of the Financial
Reporting Review Panel and a Director of the Financial Reporting
Council. He is a former Deputy Chairman of Lloyd’s Council and a
former Chairman of the Enforcement Committee of the General
Insurance Standards Council and of the Law Society’s Company Law
Committee. He was senior partner at Simmons & Simmons until
2001.
Rachel Lampard
Rachel Lampard leads an ecumenical team shaping Baptist,
Methodist and United Reformed Church work on political and social
issues. She was previously a trustee of the Responsibility in
Gambling Trust and is currently on the executive committee of the
Society for the Study of Gambling.
Anthony Lilley OBE
Anthony Lilley is the Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Magic
Lantern Productions Ltd. He is a Visiting Professor in the
Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University
and a non-executive Director of Zespa Media Ltd. As well as
advising a wide range of public sector organisations including
NESTA and Arts Council England concerning the use of technology in
the arts and media, he is a patron of UK Media Literacy Taskforce,
a member of the OFCOM Content Board and of the British Screen
Advisory Council, a trustee of English National Opera, and Chairman
of Lighthouse, the digital culture agency. He is a fellow of
the Royal Society of the Arts and former Visiting Professor at the
University of Oxford. He was awarded the OBE in 2008 for
services to media and creative industries.
Walter Merricks CBE
Walter Merricks is a solicitor. He is currently Chairman of the
Office of Health Professions Adjudicator and Chairman of the
Trustee Board at the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. He is also
a board member of Ombudsman Services Ltd and Service Complaint
Adjudicator for the Legal Ombudsman. He was Chief Ombudsman of the
Financial Ombudsman Service and was previously Insurance
Ombudsman. He had been Assistant Secretary-General at The Law
Society following an earlier career as a lecturer in law and in
legal journalism. He was a board member of the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, including periods as its
Deputy Chairman and Interim Chairman. He was awarded a CBE in 2007
for his contribution to the financial services industry.
Gill Milburn (appointment extended till 31 March 2012)
Gill Milburn had a career in
taxation and marketing prior to a long career break during which
she undertook non-executive roles for voluntary organisations. She
served as a Magistrate for 12 years, sitting on Chester Magistrates
Court's Youth, Licensing and Enforcement Panels and was active in
offender resettlement programs. More recently she acted as
consultant to a youth leadership program in Washington DC. In 2009
she moved to the West Midlands and works for Building Community
Advocacy, a third sector mental health organisation. Gill is a
board member of Dimensions UK, a leading learning disability
charity.
Eve Salomon (appointment extended till 31 March 2012)
Eve Salomon is Chair of the Regulatory Board of RICS and
Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation. She is also a director
of Salomon Whittle Ltd, a consultancy which specialises in
international media regulation.
Dr Graham Sharp
Dr Graham Sharp is a member of the Accounts Commission for
Scotland. He originally trained as a chartered accountant with
Thomson Mclintock (now KPMG) in Glasgow. He possesses a wealth
of private sector experience drawn from senior positions in the
financial field and worked in the City of London for many
years. He has held a number of roles at board level which has
included being on the board of the leading merchant bank Samuel
Montagu and being a founding director of the commercial property
investment company Minerva. He was a trustee of Victoria
Convalescent Trust.
Peter Teague
Peter Teague is Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is currently
Chief Executive of New Technology CADCAM Ltd and non-executive
Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee at both Immedia
Broadcasting plc and Elexon Limited. He holds one other public
appointment as a member of Ofcom's Audit Committee and its Spectrum
Clearance Finance Committee.
Jenny Williams (Chief Executive)
Jenny Williams became the Chief Executive of the Gaming Board,
now the Gambling Commission, in 2004. She was previously a Director
General at the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Department for
Justice). Before that she held a variety of policy and project
management posts as a senior civil servant in the Inland Revenue,
the Departments of Environment and Transport and the Home Office.
She is a trustee of the homelessness charity, Connections at
St. Martins and previously was a non-executive Director of
Northumbrian Water Group plc, of the National Campaign for
Arts and of Morley College, an adult education college.
Declaration
of interest register - June 2011
Page last reviewed: January
2012