He is group public affairs director at Lloyds Banking Group.
Dame Melanie Dawes joined Ofcom as an Executive Board Member and Chief Executive on 2 March 2020. Royal Mail fined £1.6m for late deliveries and stamp overchargingMobile, broadband and pay-TV customers could save £1bn on billsWhat powers will Ofcom have to regulate the internet?Ofcom to be put in charge of regulating internet in UKCelebrity Big Brother assault row drew most TV complaints of 2010sBBC at risk of losing young audiences, according to OfcomBBC tried to prevent Ofcom inquiry into Naga Munchetty row She was the first black person to be a permanent secretary to the Treasury.Until Thursday’s announcement White had been regarded as a contender to become the next governor of the Bank of England.Sir Charlie Mayfield, the outgoing chairman of John Lewis Partnership, said:Mayfield said he recognised that White was not “the conventional retail choice”, but added: “These are not conventional retail times, nor is the partnership a conventional company.” John Lewis is owned by its staff, who are partners, and they all receive the same percentage bonus each year, from the chairman to the Saturday shelf-stackers.Mayfield said White was “an inspirational leader with the personal and professional skills to ensure the partnership continues to innovate and change”.She will be paid £990,000 in basic salary a year to lead the retailer, which has almost 84,000 staff. Ofcom is the UK's telecoms regulator, overseeing telephone and broadband services, mobile networks, and television and radio broadcasts. She will take up her new position in early March.Dame Melanie has held senior roles across the Civil Service, working in partnership across the public and private sectors. Retail group appoints the 52-year-old as chairman on near-£1m salary White is an economist by training and has worked at the World Bank and British embassy in Washington, as well as in Tony Blair’s policy unit at No 10. She was the first black person, and the second woman, to become a Permanent Secretary at th… Ofcom said Oxley did not apply to be permanent chief executive.Dawes, who is married to Benedict Brogan, the former deputy editor and chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph, boasts an impressive three-decade career in government, including 15 years at the Treasury, five years at HMRC and four years at the Cabinet Office.“She is a very safe pair of hands and nobody’s fool,” a former colleague said. All rights reserved. She has held senior roles across the Civil Service, working in partnership across the public and private sectors. It is the main statutory instrument of regulation with a fundamental role in the effective implementation of the Communications Act 2003. Ms White, who has run Ofcom, the UK telecoms and media regulator, for the past four years, will replace Charlie Mayfield when he steps down in early 2020. UK regulator Ofcom has hired Google executive Professor Simon Saunders as director of emerging technology. "This is really a recognition of the hard work and dedication of my colleagues at Ofcom," she said, in a short statement.Ofcom is the UK's telecoms regulator, overseeing telephone and broadband services, mobile networks, and television and radio broadcasts.During Ms White's time in charge, Ofcom became the first external regulator of the BBC. She is currently Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, having previously held a variety of roles in the British civil service. Ofcom, which is going through a prolonged period of cost-cutting, said White’s salary was determined by the “market rate to attract and retain skilled and talented people”. The Ofcom Board has today announced the appointment of Dame Melanie Dawes as Chief Executive. The Ofcom Board provides strategic direction for Ofcom. In April 2008, the High Court found in favour of the Information Commissioner's Office and over-ruled Ofcom…
Ofcom's stated reasons for the appeal have ranged from "preventing terrorist attacks" on the sites of phone masts to "protecting the intellectual property" of the mobile telecommunications industry. At Google, Saunders was head of connectivity partnerships for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has agreed to stay on until the new Chair is in place to ensure a smooth transition. John Lewis has appointed the chief executive of Ofcom as its new chairman, on a near-£1m salary.. Sharon White, 52, joined the communications regulator in … This move comes with a lot of implications – some seemingly positive considering what the move is billed as doing for keeping children safe, but some seemingly negative when the bigger picture is … The English Regions team represents Ofcom in England and provides an English perspective on a range of issues to different Ofcom teams. We know where you live: Who was the media mogul who threatened the head of Ofcom? The couple have one child.Dawes was educated at Malvern Girls’ College, now Malvern St James, in Worcestershire, before going on to New College Oxford and then Birkbeck College in London for postgraduate studies in economics.She joined the civil service in 1989 and after two years at the Department for Transport moved to the Treasury, ending a 15-year stint there as Europe director.Between 2006 and 2011 Dawes was at HM Revenue & Customs, where she held a range of roles including director general for business tax, which involved responsibility for all business taxes and duties as well as leadership of the HMRC’s relationships with big business. From 2009 she led the development of its overall strategy.Form 2011 to 2015 she was director general of the economic and domestic affairs secretariat at the Cabinet Office, responsible for overseeing the system of cabinet decision-making.Dawes is also the government’s diversity and inclusion champion, a role she took over in 2019 from Dame Sue Owen, a former permanent secretary at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport who has retired. UK regulator Ofcom has hired Google executive Professor Simon Saunders as director of emerging technology. She was the Chief Executive of the British media regulator Ofcom from March 2015 to November 2019, and was Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasuryfrom 2013 to 2015. Ofcom is the UK's telecoms regulator, overseeing telephone and broadband services, mobile networks, and television and radio broadcasts. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies.