BBC Director General Tim Davie hasn’t quite left yet, but he already has his next role.
Davie will become co-chair of the Creative Industries Council, replacing ex-ITV chair Peter Bazalgette, who steps down August 1.
Davie will lead the council alongside co-chairs Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Business Secretary Peter Kyle. Under Davie, the council will continue to focus on what it termed Sector Plan priorities – including innovation, access to finance, workforce, trade and investment. Davie and Nandy had a rocky relationship during his Director General tenure and she criticized him after last summer’s Bob Vylan fiasco, saying the saga plus several other editorial issues were “a problem of leadership.”
The council is a forum that brings industry and the government together. The chair role is an unpaid voluntary one and Davie previously held it before Bazalgette. Davie will co-chair with Baroness Shriti Vadera until she steps down on December 31 at the end of her term.
Davie will leave the BBC next week after a near-six-year tenure at the very top. His place will be taken in May by former Google EMEA chief Matt Brittin.
Davie said: “It is a privilege to be asked to Chair the Creative Industries Council and champion a sector that’s a world-class success story for the UK. With the right backing, there’s a huge opportunity for our creative industries to deliver not only significant growth for the UK economy in the years ahead, but good growth that supports jobs and skills in every part of the country. I look forward to working with the government to ensure that this sector will continue to punch well above its weight for the UK.”
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