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Director-General of the BBC

Chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC

Summary

Chief executive and editor-in-chief of the BBC

Field	Value
post	Director-General
body	the BBC
incumbent	Tim Davie
incumbentsince	1 September 2020
member_of	BBC Board
Executive Committee
reports_to	BBC Board
Chairman of the BBC
appointer	BBC Board
formation	1927
first	Sir John Reith
salary	£450,000
image	Eurovision Song Contest 2023 - Lucy Frazer in Liverpool - 52901784187 (Tim Davie; fixed).jpg
insignia	BBC Logo 2021.svg
imagesize	200px
imagecaption	Davie in 2010
insigniasize	150px

Executive Committee Chairman of the BBC

The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC.

The post-holder was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to 2017). Since 2017 the director-general has been appointed by the BBC Board.

To date, 17 individuals have been appointed director-general, plus an additional two who were appointed in an acting capacity only. The current director-general is Tim Davie, who succeeded Tony Hall on 1 September 2020. On 9 November, his forthcoming resignation was announced.

List of directors-general

No.	Image	Director-General	Term of office	Length of term	Honour(s)
1	[[File:Lord reith.jpg	100px]]	Sir John Reith	1 January 1927	30 June 1938	11 years
2	[[File:Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie (1893–1949) - BBC.jpg	100px]]	Sir Frederick Ogilvie	19 July 1938	26 January 1942	3½ years
3		Sir Cecil Graves and Robert Foot	26 January 1942	6 September 1943	19 months
4		Robert Foot	6 September 1943	31 March 1944	7 months
5	[[File:William John Haley - BBC - 1942-10-13 (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Sir William Haley	1944	1952	8 years
6	[[File:LC-USZ62-104901 (24069042903) (cropped) (cropped).jpg	174x174px]]	Sir Ian Jacob	1952	1959	7 years
7		Sir Hugh Greene	1960	1969	9 years
8		Sir Charles Curran	1969	1977	8 years
9		Sir Ian Trethowan	1977	1982	5 years
10		Alasdair Milne	1982	January 1987	5 years
11		Sir Michael Checkland	1987	1992	5 years
12	[[File:Official portrait of Lord Birt crop 2.jpg	100px]]	Sir John Birt	1992	2000	8 years
13	[[File:Greg Dyke from acrofan (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Greg Dyke	2000	29 January 2004	4 years
–		Mark Byford	January 2004	June 2004	5 months
14	[[File:Mark Thompson, Nytimes @ SXSW 2016 (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Mark Thompson	22 June 2004	17 September 2012	8 years
15		George Entwistle	17 September 2012	10 November 2012	54 days
–	[[File:Tim Davie (5095813751) (cropped).jpg	100px]]	Tim Davie	11 November 2012	1 April 2013	141 days
16	[[File:Official portrait of Lord Hall of Birkenhead crop 2, 2021.jpg	100px]]	Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead	2 April 2013	author= Plunkett, John	date=25 January 2013	url= https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jan/25/bbc-director-general-lord-hall	title=BBC director general Lord Hall to take charge on 2 April	work=The Guardian	access-date=8 September 2019}}	7 years
17	[[File:Eurovision Song Contest 2023 - Lucy Frazer in Liverpool - 52901784187 (Tim Davie; fixed).jpg	133x133px]]	Tim Davie	1 September 2020		5 years

Italics indicate that the individual was temporarily appointed as acting director-general.

References

(2020-06-05). "Tim Davie: BBC executive named director general".
"BBC Director-General Tim Davie to step down".
"London Gazette, 1 January 1927".
"London Gazette, 29 October 1940".
{{London Gazette. (21 February 1969)
(30 January 1987). "Head of BBC Quits, Ending Stormy Tenure". The New York Times.
(14 September 1999). "Honours and Awards". London Gazette.
Plunkett, John. (25 January 2013). "BBC director general Lord Hall to take charge on 2 April". [[The Guardian]].
(21 January 2020). "Lord Hall to step down as BBC's director general". [[BBC News]].
"Directors-General".

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