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
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