Lord Hall of Birkenhead

Director-General, BBC

Tony Hall joined the BBC in 1973 as a news trainee after graduating from Oxford with an MA in PPE. He worked his way through senior management positions, leaving in 2001 to become chief executive at the Royal Opera House for over a decade. Hall returned to the BBC as director-general in 2013, 40 years after the public service broadcaster gave him his first job. 2016 sees the BBC face its biggest challenge in recent years with its royal charter due to expire at the end of the year, and Hall’s move to open up television and radio hours to independent producers looks to pre-empt possible threats to the corporation’s future.

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