Lord Michael Grade

Michael is Chair of Ofcom, the regulatory and competition authority for broadcasting, telecommunications, and postal industries.

He has had a long career in broadcasting, encompassing London Weekend Television, the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4. He has chaired the BBC, ITV, and Pinewood/Shepperton Film Studios. He is a co-founder of the GradeLinnit Company, which produces for the theatre.

He is Chair of the Arora Group’s Heathrow Expansion Advisory Board, having also been Chair of Ocado, First Leisure Corporation, Camelot, the Charity Fundraising Regulator, and Bradford’s Media Museum. He was a member of the former Press Complaints Commission and was a Trustee of the Science Museum.

In 2011, he became a member of the House of Lords, where he sits as a non-affiliated Peer. He is known as Lord Grade of Yarmouth.