Members of the Nations Committee are listed below. You can read biographies by clicking on each member's name. Their disclosable interests can be read by referring to the separate disclosable interests pages for the Ofcom Board, Content Board, the Advisory Committee for Wales, the Advisory Committee for England, the Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland and the Advisory Committee for Scotland.
Tim Suter (Ofcom Board Member and Chairman of the Nations Committee)
Tim Suter was appointed to the Ofcom Board with effect from 2 October 2017. He is also a member of the Content Board, Chairman of the Nations Committee, and a member of the Remuneration Committee and Nominations Committee.
Tim Suter was a BBC producer, editor and senior manager for 15 years, working across television, radio and on-line and in genres as diverse as drama, documentary and current affairs.
In 2002 he was appointed Head of Broadcasting Policy in the Department for Culture Media and Sport, responsible for the Communications Act of 2003 that overhauled the policy approach to the converging industries of media and telecommunications and included the creation of the converged regulator, Ofcom.
Tim joined Ofcom at its inception in 2003 as the founding Partner for Content and Standards, overseeing the regulation of all broadcast content, the development of policy and its implementation. After five years at Ofcom, Tim left to found Perspective Associates, advising media companies, governments and regulators on media policy and regulation. As well as working with major international media companies across the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Tim has also been a special advisor to the House of Lords Communications Committee, and the chair of an expert panel advising the Council of Europe of the governance of Public Service Media.
John Varney (Chairman, England)
John currently runs his own consultancy, Maximum Clarity, supporting public and private sector bodies with a wide range of technology issues. He is also Chairman of Pebble Beach Systems Group plc, which delivers software solutions for TV Broadcasters globally.
His previous roles include just under five years as Chief Technology Officer for the BBC and six years as Director of Technology for Granada. In these roles John oversaw the launch of DTT in 7 of the 13 ITV Regions and managed the development of a range of new BBC services including its R&D division.
John is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Silk Heritage Trust, which runs 4 museums dedicated to the story of silk production in the UK and the Industrial, Social and Economic Development of the North West of England in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. He is a Director of Enterprising Macclesfield CiC, where he is also a business coach and mentor for local enterprises.
He is a Governor and member of Audit Committee at Manchester Metropolitan University.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Television Society.
Hywel Wiliam (Chairman, Wales)
Hywel Wiliam is a director with the broadcasting and telecommunications consultancy, Advisors in Media (AIM). He previously worked as a regulator for over 16 years, initially with the Independent Television Commission (ITC) and subsequently with Ofcom, where he was Head of Broadcasting and Telecommunications until 2011.
He has worked on two projects for the Welsh Government, an economic impact assessment of BBC Wales/S4C and a community radio development project. While still at AIM he was also appointed as a Corporate Researcher for S4C, a position he held until June 2014. He is also Deputy Chair of the Institute of Welsh Affairs (IWA) Media Policy Group and in 2015 he was co-author of the IWA Wales Media Audit.
Professor Maureen Edmondson (Chairman, Northern Ireland)
Maureen has worked in the food industry for much of her career and has held a number of roles in public sector and not-for-profit organisations. She spent 20 years in International Scientific Affairs at Mars Incorporated and later held public positions at Postwatch, the Food Standards Agency and is currently Chair of the Patient and Client Council. Maureen holds a degree and PhD from Queens University of Belfast . She is Immediate Past President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology and Chair of Governors of Edgehill Theological College. She was a member of the Communications Consumer Panel between 2008 and 2012 as the member for Northern Ireland.
Member for Scotland - to be confirmed
Graham Mather
Graham Mather was appointed to the Ofcom Board with effect from 1 June 2014. He is a member of Ofcom's Nations Committee, Nominations Committee, Remuneration Committee and Risk and Audit Committee. Graham Mather was a member of Ofcom's Consumer Panel from 2004 to 2008. He served as a member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and, between 2000 and 2012, was also member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, the body that deals with appeals from the UK regulators. Graham is currently the President of the European Policy Forum and Chairman of its Regulatory Best Practice Group.
Register of disclosable interests
