Sue Balsom

Sue Balsom

First term of Appointment: 3 years. (1 May 2003 to 30 June 2006). Reappointed Term: 3 years (1 July 2006 to 30 June 2009)

Sue Balsom is Managing Director of her own successful, bilingual PR, Design and Publishing business founded in 1989. She is a former teacher, university careers adviser and journalist. Born in London, she has lived in Aberystwyth, West Wales for 35 years and has learnt Welsh. She was a member of the TV-AM regional board until 1992 and was Vice-Chair of the BBC’s Broadcasting Council for Wales 1996-2001. She served on the Board of Welsh Development Agency, Finance Wales and the Prince’s Trust Cymru, is a Trustee at the Centre for Alternative Technology and also the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Sue recently became a Member of the Design Skills Panel of the Design Council of the UK.

Sue is the Wales representative for the Content Board and is a member (on a rotational basis) of the Fairness Committee and the Content Sanctions Committee and attends by invitation the meetings of the Ofcom Advisory Committee for Wales.