Valerie Ann Amos,Baroness Amos,is a British Labour Party politician and diplomat who served as the eighth UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Before her appointment to the UN,she served as British High Commissioner to Australia. She was created a life peer in 1997,serving as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council from 2003 to 2007.
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden,central London. The large building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden,after a previous use of the site. It is the home of The Royal Opera,The Royal Ballet,and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. The first theatre on the site,the Theatre Royal (1732),served primarily as a playhouse for the first hundred years of its history. In 1734,the first ballet was presented. A year later,the first season of operas,by George Frideric Handel,began. Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premieres there.
George Henry Hubert Lascelles,7th Earl of Harewood,styled The Honourable George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947,was a British classical music administrator and author. He served as director of the Royal Opera House,chairman of the board of the English National Opera (ENO) (1986–1995);managing director of the ENO (1972–1985),managing director of the English National Opera North (1978–81),governor of the BBC (1985–1987),and president of the British Board of Film Classification (1985–1996).
Mark Julian Byford was Deputy Director-General of the BBC and head of BBC journalism from 2004 to 2011. He chaired the BBC Journalism Board and was a member of the BBC Executive Board for thirteen years.
Edmund John Phillip Browne,Baron Browne of Madingley,,is a British businessman.
Robert Haldane Smith,Baron Smith of Kelvin,is a British businessman and former Governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Smith was knighted in 1999,appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbench peer in 2008,and appointed Knight of the Thistle in the 2014 New Year Honours. He was also appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 2016.
The Royal Opera is a British opera company based in central London,resident at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Along with English National Opera,it is one of the two principal opera companies in London. Founded in 1946 as the Covent Garden Opera Company,the company had that title until 1968. It brought a long annual season and consistent management to a house that had previously hosted short seasons under a series of impresarios. Since its inception,it has shared the Royal Opera House with the dance company now known as The Royal Ballet.
Timothy Douglas Davie is a British media executive currently serving as the seventeenth Director-General of the BBC since 1 September 2020,taking over from Tony Hall. He was previously appointed as the acting director-general of the BBC on 10 November 2012 following the resignation of George Entwistle,until Hall took over the role permanently in April 2013.
Zeinab Badawi is a Sudanese-British television and radio journalist. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News,and co-presented Channel 4 News with Jon Snow from 1989 to 1998 before joining BBC News. Badawi was the presenter of World News Today broadcast on both BBC Four and BBC World News,and Reporters,a weekly showcase of reports from the BBC. In 2021,Badawi was appointed as president of SOAS University of London.
Mary Allen is a British writer,broadcaster,arts administrator and management consultant best known for her controversial and turbulent period as Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House.
Paul Myners,Baron Myners,was a British businessman and politician. In October 2008 he was elevated to the House of Lords as a life peer and was appointed City Minister in the Labour Government of Gordon Brown,serving until May 2010. As City Minister Myners was responsible for overseeing the financial services sector during the global financial crisis and its aftermath,including leading the controversial 2008 United Kingdom bank rescue package. Myners sat in the House of Lords as a Labour peer until 2014,resigning to become a non-affiliated member before joining the crossbench group in 2015.
Robert Gavron,Baron Gavron was a British printing millionaire,philanthropist and a Labour life peer.
The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017. It was operationally independent of BBC management and external bodies,and its stated aim was to make decisions in the best interests of licence-fee payers. On 12 May 2016,it was announced in the House of Commons that,under the next royal charter,the regulatory functions of the BBC Trust were to be transferred to Ofcom.
Judith "Jude" Pamela Kelly,,is a British theatre director and producer. She is a director of the WOW Foundation,which organises the annual Women of the World Festival,founded in 2010 by Kelly. From 2006 to 2018,she was Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre in London.
Evan Mervyn Davies,Baron Davies of Abersoch,is a British former banker and was a Labour government minister until May 2010,as Minister of State for Trade,Investment and Small Business. Davies remains a UK government Trade Envoy for Sri Lanka.
Sir Graham Vick was an English opera director known for his experimental and revisionist stagings of traditional and modern operas. He worked in many of the world's leading opera houses and was artistic director of the Birmingham Opera Company.
Michael Charles Williams,Baron Williams of Baglan was a British diplomat and crossbench life peer.
Alexander Charles Beard CBE was the deputy director of the Tate from 2002 to 2013. In March 2013,he was appointed as the new chief executive of the Royal Opera House,London,succeeding Tony Hall,who relinquished the post on his appointment as Director-General of the BBC. Beard took up the post at the ROH in September 2013.
Ian Roper Taylor was a British businessman and philanthropist who was chairman and CEO of The Vitol Group,the world's largest independent energy trader. He was also the majority shareholder in Harris Tweed Hebrides,the primary producer of Harris Tweed cloth,which he helped to rescue in 2005.
Alexander Campbell is an Australian ballet dancer who is currently a principal dancer in the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden,London.
