Indian media veteran Samir Shah preferred choice as BBC Chair

UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has announced that Dr Samir Shah CBE, the Indian-born seasoned media professional, is the preferred candidate of the UK government for the position of BBC Chair.
With over four decades of experience in broadcasting, Dr Shah is currently serving as the CEO and owner of Juniper, an independent television and radio production company.

Prior to his role at Juniper, he held the position of head of current affairs and political programmes at the BBC.
His career started at London Weekend Television in 1979, and since then he has held positions as head of current affairs television at the BBC.
Dr Shah has served as a Trustee and Deputy Chair of the V&A, a Non-Executive Director on the BBC Board and is current chair of One World Media.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2002 and, in 2019, was the Visiting Professor of Creative Media at Oxford University (Faculty of English).

Dr Shah is a member of the Nuffield Foundation Steering Group: Inequality in the Twenty First Century and The Deaton Review. He was also notably chair of the independent race equality think tank The Runnymede Trust for two decades and was a member of the Holocaust Commission.
In 2019 he was awarded a CBE for services to television and heritage.