Miss Caroline Thomson

Career: BBC: trainee BBC News 1975-77, parly reporter 1977-78, sr prodr various radio and TV progs incl Analysis and Panorama 1978-82, dir Policy and Legal 2000-, dir Strategy and Distribution 2005-06, chief operating offr 2006-; political asst to Rt Hon Roy Jenkins MP 1982-83; Channel 4 TV: commissioning ed 1984-90, head of corp affrs 1990-95; BBC World Service: dir of strategy and corp affairs 1995-96, dep md 1996-98, dep chief exec 1998-2000; dir Edinburgh Film Festival 1994-95, chm World Service Tst 1998-2001, tstee Nat Gallery; pres Prix Italia 2005-08 (hon pres 2008-); non-exec dir: Digital UK, The Pensions Regulator 2005-09; memb: fell RTS 2007, BAFTA 1988