George Edward Entwistle was born on 8 July 1962 and is a former broadcasting executive, who was Director-General of the BBC during 2012, succeeding Mark Thompson.
17 Facts About George Entwistle
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George Entwistle rose to become the director of BBC Vision, and became the Director-General of the BBC on 17 September 2012.
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George Entwistle was born on 8 July 1962, the son of Philip and Wendy George Entwistle.
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George Entwistle was educated at Silcoates School, an independent school for boys, in the village of Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield in West Yorkshire.
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George Entwistle then went on to study at the University of Durham in the city of Durham in north-east England, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Politics, in 1983.
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From 1984 to 1989, George Entwistle worked as a writer and editor at Haymarket Magazines.
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In 1989, George Entwistle joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a broadcast journalism trainee.
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George Entwistle became deputy editor of BBC One's Tomorrow's World in 1999.
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George Entwistle was promoted to editor of Newsnight on 10 September 2001 and served in that position until 2004.
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In 2004, George Entwistle was appointed executive editor of Topical Arts on BBC Two and BBC Four.
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George Entwistle was responsible for commissioning 1600 hours of TV programmes across BBC One, Two, Three and Four each year, and was in overall control of the BBC's online factual and learning content.
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On 4 July 2012, the Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, announced that George Entwistle had been appointed to succeed Mark Thompson as Director-General of the BBC.
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George Entwistle took up the post on 17 September 2012.
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George Entwistle described himself as the "right person for the job".
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George Entwistle said that Newsnight had been wrong to broadcast the report, and that he had been aware of it only after it had been broadcast.
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George Entwistle was publicly supported by Jeremy Paxman, Michael Crick, John Ware, Stephen Fry and Ben Bradshaw.
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In 2013, George Entwistle enrolled as a Master's student at St Catherine's College, Oxford, studying the history of design.