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London & Shenzhen

COMPANY OVERVIEW:Operating across 170 countries and employing over 207,000 people, Huawei is a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, smart devices, services and solutions.RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS:* Leading the strategy to boost public awareness/recognition of the local and global value Huawei brings to businesses and communities across the world.* Strategic crisis communications management and advice.* Corporate event host, interviewer and original format content creator.* Launching, leading and presenting a global, multi-media thought leadership series.* Relaunching and tripling traffic to the company's corporate news site.* Multiple company award-winner for outstanding leadership and project management.

Broadcasting House

COMPANY OVERVIEW:The world's largest broadcast news and current affairs organisation.RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS:* BBC News Board member, determining division-wide future strategy direction, clear-sighted leadership of multi-million pound project groups.* Day-to-day strategic, editorial, financial and managerial leadership of key global and domestic TV and radio news programmes (all Radio 4, TV 6/10, World News and UK News Channels, TV Breakfast, World Service, 5 Live etc), up to 1500 staff and £140m budget. Fostering new content, reinforcing brand reputations and driving efficiencies.* Drove creative innovation: a key developer of an interactive Voice News service; of the multi-platform "assertive impartiality" experimental style of storytelling; and of the now industry-wide 50/50 gender equality project. Also overhauled diversity of my leadership team, more than tripling representation of women at senior leader level.* Led the news teams through acute financial, staffing and logistical pressures created by the Covid pandemic, delivering award-winning quality journalism to record audiences.* Delivered £13m (12%) financial savings and 132 EFT (12%) headcount reduction in two years, without incurring industrial action and whilst improving output impact.* Represented BBC News in external interviews, and as chair of the EBU Radio & Audio News committee and Trustee of the NCTJ and UK Science Media Centre.

London, England, United Kingdom

RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS:* Determined, drove and coordinated the daily news agenda on behalf of the entirety of BBC News, leading allocation of appropriate staffing and resources on the most important running stories.* Established and shaped this newly created role, reporting to the Director of News, and recruited/trained new team to ensure daily newsroom leadership.* Directed investigations into key news stories, marshalling and coordinating collective expertise across news and current affairs departments.

London, England, United Kingdom

RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS:* Led the BBC’s 40+ political news gathering team across TV, Radio and Online, driving the editorial agenda and liaising with politicians/party HQs.* Guided programme output on stories to cover, and treatments.* Core member of overall news strategy team.* Managed selection procedures, redundancies, appeals and tribunals.

London, England, United Kingdom

RESPONSIBILITIES & ACHIEVEMENTS:* Created record Question Time audiences (8.2m), wider range of panellists and oversaw relocation of show to Glasgow.* Devised/led the 2010 General Election Campaign Show, three audience debates with party leaders and a "Cameron & Clegg Face The Audience" special programme.* Refreshed look/news-making capability of the Politics Show, maintained audience figures whilst cutting costs by 25%.* Extensive period as Today Programme interim editor, overseeing editorial drive away from the Westminster beltway and broadening the range and appeal of the programme.* Coordinated Sony entry which brought programme 2 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze awards in 6 years.

Master Of Arts - Ma First Class, History, First Class

Graduate Of The Harvard University/Poynter Institute Media Transformation Leadership Programme

3 A Levels, 1 S Level , 13 O/Ao Levels - All Grade A

Master'S Degree, History, First Class

Activities and Societies: 24 marathons & ultra-marathons, lifelong Ipswich Town fan & Indianapolis Colts supporter, history, genealogy.