Register of disclosable interests

The register of disclosable interests sets out the external interests and commitments of those who sit on Ofcom’s Boards, Committees and Panels, and the interests of their partners and any dependents.

Members that have declared interests in companies regulated by Ofcom have provided assurances that they will not trade these shares while they remain a member of one of Ofcom’s Boards, Committees or Panels.

Name	Board/Committee	Status	Interests
Michael Grade	Ofcom Board	Chair	Shareholder, StoryFirst (drama production company) Shareholder, Talent Bank (digital content producer) Shareholder, Miroma Group (global creative digital marketing company) Shareholder, Grade Linnit Company Ltd (theatre producers; 50% shareholder) Shareholder and consultant, MMM (music copyrights) Non-Executive Chairman (designate), McFaddens & Co Group Ltd. (family office advisory) (shareholdings to be announced) Chair and shareholder, Chiltern Management Group (project creation/ property development) In receipt of BBC pension In receipt of Channel 4 pension In receipt of ITV pension Daughter is involved in media training and media advisory work in Birmingham Son is a freelance sports AP, working for IMG, BT, Sky and various independents Sister is an agent for TV presenters and agent for Michael Grade (no longer active) Shareholder, AKL Research & Development (pharmaceutical business) (unremunerated) Chair designate, Lottoland (subject to an IPO) (unremunerated) Chair, Arora Group Heathrow Expansion Board (unremunerated) Patron, Sepsis Trust (unremunerated) Vice President, Jewish Music Institute (unremunerated) Trustee, Band Aid (unremunerated) Trustee, Tall Ships Youth Trust (unremunerated) Member of Advisory Board of the Communities Security Trust (unremunerated) Adviser Dear Heart Productions (unremunerated) VHF radio licence for boat Non-affiliated peer, House of Lords Adviser, Karma Technologies (unremunerated) Non-executive Director ad shareholder, Magic Box Zone
	People Committee	Member
	Risk and Audit Committee	Attendee
Melanie Dawes	Ofcom Board	Executive Member	Member of the Racial Justice Commission (an independent body appointed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York)
	People Committee	Attendee
	Risk and Audit Committee	Attendee
Maggie Carver	Ofcom Board	Deputy Chair	Chair of the Licoricia of Winchester Appeal (a small charity) Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
	People Committee	Member
	Content Board	Chair
Ben Verwaayen	Ofcom Board	Member	Chair of Renewi Limited Non-Executive Director of Akamai General Partner at investment fund Keen Venture Partners
Ben Verwaayen	People Committee	Chair
Bob Downes	Ofcom Board	Member for Scotland	Chair of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency Non-Executive Director of Kube Networks Chair of the Independent Oversight Board for Ireland’s Commission for Communications’ regulation Shareholder, small number of shares in a regulated company held on a non-trading basis
	Content Board	Member
	People Committee	Member
	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Attendee
	Election Committee	Interim Chair
Angela Dean	Ofcom Board	Member	Trustee of York Museums Trust A Senior Independent Panel Member for Public Appointments
	People Committee	Member
	Risk and Audit Committee	Chair
	Advisory Committee for England	Attendee
David Jones	Ofcom Board	Member	Non-executive director of Ofwat Non-executive director of the Board of Qualifications, Wales Sole director and sole shareholder of Public Services Digital Limited (company used for consultancy services) Member of Cardiff University’s Executive Education Team teaching the Digital Leadership section of an MBA course Guest lecturer at Cardiff University Member of the Technology Connected Leadership Council Member of the Bevan Foundation Small shareholder of Econotherm Small shareholder of Vision for Food. Small shareholder of Enclave Provides informal assistance to the Welsh Government on cyber security Industry Champion in Cyber Governance at Bristol University's CyBOK Unit, funded by NCSC Member of the Cardiff Business Club Co-founder, CxB, which involves working closely with NCSC and DSIT (unremunerated)
	People Committee	Member
	Risk and Audit Committee	Member
	Advisory Committee for Wales	Attendee
Karen Baxter	Ofcom Board	Member	Director, Financial Conduct Authority
	Risk and Audit Committee	Member
	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Attendee
Lindsey Fussell	Ofcom Board	Executive Member	Non-executive and Deputy Treasurer, University of York Council Non-executive Director (Sufficiently Independent Director), NGED
Will Harding	Ofcom Board	Member	Director/Trustee of The Baker Dearing Educational Trust Ltd. Director of Primedia Holdings (Pty) Ltd (South Africa). Trustee, Landmark Arts Centre Relative is Member of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee
Will Harding	Risk and Audit Committee	Member
Maggie Cunningham	Content Board	Member	Interim part-time Chief Executive of Sistema Scotland Independent Member of the Edinburgh Festivals Forum Chair of Kyle and Lochalsh Community Development Trust Columnist for Stornoway Gazette Director of An Comann Gaidhealach In receipt of a BBC pension
Maggie Cunningham	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Attendee
Stephen Nuttall	Content Board	Member	Shareholder of Alphabet (the parent company of Google) Member of the Royal Television Society Voting member of BAFTA Partner works for First Decide LLP Deputy Chair of British Science Association
Alison Marsden	Content Board	Executive Member	Partner is employed part-time by The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, Department of Health and Social Care Non-Executive Board Member at the UK's statutory regulatory body for fertility treatment and embryo research, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Member of the BBC pension scheme
Peter Horrocks	Content Board	Member	In receipt of a BBC pension Attends the editorial board of N1, a group of news channels in the Balkans Chair of Learna Ltd, a medical education business Trustee, One World Media (NGO)
Dekan Apajee	Content Board	Member	Member of the BBC pension scheme Member of the National Union of Journalists Consultant for Digital Awareness UK to support the development of a curriculum journalism training course Member for Big Ideas, C.I.C Advisory board
Dekan Apajee	Advisory Committee for England	Member
Kim Shillinglaw	Content Board	Member	Holds widely invested ISA funds which may contain fractional investments in regulated companies Partner is Senior Vice President in Universal Music Independent Board member at BEIS (Met Office - Public Weather Service) Member of BBC pension scheme Trustee of Raspberry Pi Foundation Advisor at the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre Non-executive Director at Natural England Non-executive Director at Natural Environment Research Council Chair of Discovery Decade, a research project on UK R&D investment conducted by the Wellcome Trust and the Campaign for Science and Engineering Non-executive Director at Curious Films Non-executive Director of Axis Studio Group Non-executive Director of Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Ltd
Maria McCann	Content Board	Member	Founder and Managing Partner, McCann Public Relations Vice Chair, Clanmil Housing Association
Maria McCann	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Attendee
Ruth McElroy	Content Board	Member	Chair of Ffilm Cymru Co-Director of Clwstwr Creadigol Member of Unboxed Evaluation Advisory Board (DCMS/Welsh Government) Head of School, Bangor University
Ruth McElroy	Advisory Committee for Wales	Attendee
Simon Bucks	Content Board	Member	Partner in a small media consultancy Armitage Bucks Communications which specialises in media training Spouse is also a Partner of Armitage Bucks Communications Trustee and Honorary Secretary of the Royal Television Society Emeritus member of the Society of Editors Occasionally writes articles on the media sector, mainly for the Royal Television Society magazine
Paula Carter	Advisory Committee for England	Chair	Non-executive director of the Port of London Authority Non-executive director of Be the Business Magistrate on the South East London Bench In receipt of a pension from the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 Surrey representative on the Board of the Rugby Football Union
Alan Nunn	Advisory Committee for England	Member	Employee and shareholder at CGI IT UK Ltd. Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology Member of the Institution of Telecommunications Professionals Shareholder in BT In receipt of the BT pension scheme Chairman of Tech Advanced Communication Services working group Trustee at St Johns PCC
Mark Smith	Advisory Committee for England	Member	Board Member and Trustee of Henley Festival (Charitable Trust) Chair of the IBC Council
Aaqil Ahmed	Advisory Committee for England	Member	Non-executive director of the Advertising Standards Authority Council member for Higher Education Funding Council Wales Trustee of Muslim Aid Sole trader at Amplify Consulting Ltd. 2% stake in an ethical marketing start-up, The Shine Global Director of Culture Squared, a CIC that runs the Bradford Literature Festival Trustee of the Sandford St Martins Trust. Senior Independent Panel Member for the Welsh Government Panel of Public Appointments
Matthew Littleford	Advisory Committee for England	Member	Member of BAFTA Chair of The Reading Agency Chair of Resource Productions Advisor to Francesca Moody Productions ( Shareholder in ITV Managing Director, Jist
Caroline Gardner	Advisory Committee for England	Member	Bury College, teacher
Elizabeth Partyka	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Chair	Shareholder in STV Group PLC Receives an STV pension Non-Executive board member of Creative Scotland
Stephen Speirs	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Member	Shareholder in Cisco
Jess McBeath	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Member	Director and founder of Jess Ltd (online harms and digital citizenship consultancy) Board member of Borders College Regional Board Member of Advertising Advisory Committee (Advertising Standards Authority/Committees of Advertising Practice)
Ashe Hussain	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Member	Member of the Creative Scotland's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group Part time employee at Film City Future, working on projects related to media Freelance assessor at Film Hub Scotland Member of the Royal Television Society Member of BAFTA Scotland Owner of FortyLoveMedia Ltd. In receipt of a BBC survivor's pension
Gerry Crawley	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Member	Director of Critiqom
Polly Tolley	Advisory Committee for Scotland	Member	Head of Public Policy for Retail Banking, NatWest
Tom Crick	Advisory Committee for Wales	Member	Non-executive Director of Sector Development Wales Partnership (trading as Industry Wales) Chartered Fellow and elected Member of Council at BCS (the Chartered Institute for IT) Chartered Fellow at the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Angharad Evans	Advisory Committee for Wales	Member	Member of BAFTA Member of Women in Film and Television Director and Owner, Angharad Evans Consulting Limited Limited consultancy work for S4C and BBC Studios relating to advice on commercial contracts and licensing/rights agreements Legal consultancy advice to independent production companies on on commercial contracts, financing contracts, licensing/rights agreement and general compliance with all relevant rules and regulations
Aled Eirug	Advisory Committee for Wales	Member	In receipt of a BBC pension Independent adviser to the National Assembly for Wales Commission Honorary research fellow, Cardiff University Chair, Coleg Cymraeg Partner is employed by BBC Wales
Robert Andrews	Advisory Committee for Wales	Chair	None
Carrie Matchett	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Chair	Self-employed consultant, specialising in governance and strategy Member of the BBC pension scheme Holds a venture capital trust with Foresight
Michael Wilson	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Member	Shareholder in ITV Director and owner of Beech Hill Consultancy Ltd Chair of the Advisory Board at Isle of Media Member of the Royal Television Society Founder member of the Irish Film and Television Academy Member of the Media Society
Aodhan O'Donnell	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Member	None
Colm Murphy	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Member	National Council for the Training of Journalists – Director and Trustee NCTJ Training Ltd - Director UK Community News Project - Director Ulster University - Lecturer Partner holds Royal Mail shares
Jackie Neill	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Member	Director, Headgirl Media Limited - occasional commissions for radio series for BBC Northern Ireland Husband works for BBC Northern Ireland as a Sound Engineer
Paul Wickens	Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland	Member	Son works in a sales role for BT plc and is a member of an employee share scheme
Mark Jones	Community Radio Fund Panel	Chair	Member of the Community Media Association but does not hold any positions within the organisation
Alan Stewart	Community Radio Fund Panel	Member	Full member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Occasional visiting lecturer at universities in Scotland on media regulation and consumption trends Commissioner, Boundaries Scotland
Olu Bankole	Community Radio Fund Panel	Executive Member	Shareholding in a group holding company of a regulated company, held on a non-trading basis Shareholding in one company not regulated by Ofcom (but involved in the communcations, media or postal sectors) held on a non-trading basis