Director-General of the BBC


































Director-General of the BBC

Incumbent
The Lord Hall of Birkenhead
since April 2013
Member of
BBC Board
Executive Committee
Reports to Parliament of the United Kingdom
Appointer BBC Board
Formation 1927
First holder Sir John Reith
Salary £450,000

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


The position was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period of 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to 2017). Since 2017 the Director-General is appointed by the BBC Board.


To date sixteen individuals, all of whom have been men, have been appointed Director-General, plus an additional two who were appointed in an acting capacity only. The current Director-General is Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, who was appointed from the chief executiveship of the Royal Opera House, which position he had held from April 2001. He is the first peer to hold the position (Lords Reith and Birt having been raised to the peerage only after their tenures had ended).



List of incumbents


































































































Director General Tenure Time in post
Sir John Reith 1927–1938 11 years
Sir Frederick Ogilvie 1938–1942 4 years

Sir Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot
 1942–1943 1 year
Robert W. Foot 1943–1944 1 year
Sir William Haley 1944–1952 8 years
Sir Ian Jacob 1952–1959 7 years
Sir Hugh Greene 1960–1969 9 years
Sir Charles Curran 1969–1977 8 years
Sir Ian Trethowan 1977–1982 5 years
Alasdair Milne 1982–1987 5 years
Sir Michael Checkland 1987–1992 5 years
Sir John Birt 1992–2000 8 years
Greg Dyke 2000–2004 4 years

Mark Byford*		 January – June 2004 5 months
Mark Thompson 2004–2012 8 years
George Entwistle 2012 54 days

Tim Davie*		 2012–2013 141 days
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead April 2013 – present Incumbent

An asterisk indicates that the incumbent was temporarily appointed as Acting Director General.



References





External links



  • The BBC press office's biographical list of its Directors General

  • BBC director-general-portraits









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