Speaker Biography
Greg Dyke, Chairman, HIT Entertainment Ltd and Director-General, BBC (2000-2004)
After serving as Director of Programmes, MD and Group Chief Executive at LWT, Dyke took over as Chief Executive at Pearson Television, transforming it into the largest non-US independent production company in the world. He became Director-General of the BBC in January 2000, and, having famously promised to "cut the crap" at the corporation, he changed the internal market system which he believed took talent away from making programmes and made them into managers, reducing administration costs dramatically from 24% of total income to 15%. In 2004 he was formally appointed by the University of York as its new Chancellor.
