Dame Patricia Hodgson

Dame Patricia Hodgson , DBE, has been Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, since 2006.

Having begun her career as a producer and journalist, she was Director of Policy and Planning at the BBC from 1993 to 2000, where she was responsible for Charter and licence renegotiations and for project managing the BBC’s switch to digital.   From 2000 to the end of 2003 she was Chief Executive of the Independent Television Commission.

She was appointed Chair of the School Teachers’ Review Body with effect from 1 February 2012. She was a non-executive director of The Competition Commission (2004 – end 2011) and a Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (2005 – Sept 2011). She also chaired the Higher Education Regulation Review Group, 2004-6.  Patricia was a Member of the Wellcome Trust from 2004-2008 and of the Committee for Standards in Public Life for the same period.  She has also served as a non-executive director of GCap plc and as a Member of the Statistics Commission.  She was a Member of the BBC Trust from its inception until June 2011.

Patricia Hodgson was appointed as a Member of the Ofcom Board on 1 July 2011. She became Deputy Chairman on 1 January 2012. She is Chairman of Ofcom’s Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee and a member of Ofcom’s Risk and Audit Committee and Nominations Committee. She has special non-executive responsibility for spectrum issues.