20 Facts About Tim Davie

Timothy Douglas Davie was born on 25 April 1967 and is the current and seventeenth Director-General of the BBC.

Tim Davie succeeded Lord Hall of Birkenhead in the role on 1 September 2020.

Tim Davie unsuccessfully stood as a candidate for the Conservative Party in 1993 and 1994 in the Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council elections.

Tim Davie was appointed acting Director-General of the BBC in 2012, following George Entwistle's resignation in November 2012, until Lord Hall took over the role permanently in April 2013.

Tim Davie was born on 25 April 1967 in Croydon, London.

Tim Davie attended Whitgift School, a private school, in the London Borough of Croydon on a scholarship between 1980 and 1985.

Tim Davie unsuccessfully stood as a councillor for the Conservative Party in the Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council elections in 1993 and 1994 and was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Association in the 1990s.

Tim Davie joined the BBC as Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences in April 2005, succeeding Andy Duncan.

Tim Davie was Director-General Mark Thompson's first senior external appointment.

Tim Davie took over as acting Director-General on 11 November 2012 following the resignation of George Entwistle in the wake of the Newsnight broadcast which did not name any individual but which led to Internet speculation which incorrectly identified Conservative Lord McAlpine in the North Wales child abuse case.

Tim Davie became chief executive officer of BBC Worldwide following the appointment of Tony Hall.

BBC Worldwide merged with the TV-making arm of the BBC, BBC Studios, in April 2018 and Tim Davie served as both the Chief Executive of BBC Studios and a Director globally.

Tim Davie was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to international trade.

In May 2020, Tim Davie was one of four candidates shortlisted to succeed Hall in the position.

In September 2020, appearing before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Tim Davie justified the salary of BBC's highest paid star Gary Lineker saying the salary was worth it because of the value of analysis to the viewing audience.

Tim Davie said this was to reduce perceived bias in the BBC.

Tim Davie has stated "As editor in chief of the BBC I think one of our founding principles is impartiality and that's what we are delivering on".

In December 2021, Tim Davie was elected to the Executive Board of the European Broadcasting Union.

Tim Davie was re-elected in December 2022 to serve a further two years on the Board, until December 2024.

Tim Davie is Chairman of Comic Relief, Trustee of the Tate and the Royal Television Society, and in 2018 was appointed as Chairman of the Creative Industries Council.