Liz Forgan
Dame Elizabeth Anne Lucy Forgan,
Early life
Forgan was educated at Benenden School, Kent, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, then an all-female college.
She initially worked on newspapers starting with the
She was editor of The Guardian's women's pages from 1978 to 1982, a Guardian columnist during 1997 and 1998, becoming a non-executive director of the Guardian Media Group[1] from 1998.
Media management
Forgan was a founding commissioning editor and then Director of Programmes at the UK's Channel 4 from 1981 to 1990.[2]
She joined the BBC in 1993 to become Managing Director, BBC Network Radio where she developed the format for
She left the BBC in February 1996 over a disagreement with
Forgan was appointed the sixth chairman of The
Public organisations
Between 2001 and 2008 Forgan was the Chair of the
She is also board member of the
In February 2009 Forgan became Chair of Arts Council England, the first woman to head the British arts funding organisation. Appointed in the last year of a Labour Government, she was viewed with suspicion by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. In the October 2010 Government spending review, the Arts Council suffered a 29.6% funding cut, and was also ordered to halve its administrative costs.[7]
Honours
Liz Forgan was promoted
In 2014 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy.[8]
See also
- Jill Tweedie for details of the National Portrait Gallery Group portrait of Forgan, Tweedie, Polly Toynbee and Mary Stott (editors of Guardian's Women's Page) and Posy Simmonds.
References
- ^ "Scott Trust Appoints New Chair". Archived from the original on 26 April 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2007.
- ^ "Liz Forgan - Heritage Lottery Fund". Archived from the original on 24 June 2006. Retrieved 28 January 2007.
- ^ "News move was last straw for Liz Forgan" by Michael Leapman, The Independent, 25 February 1996. Retrieved on 14 January 2022.
- ^ History of the Scott Trust Archived 6 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Dame Liz re-appointed to the National Heritage Memorial Fund". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2007.
- ^ "Hidden Treasures Speakers". Archived from the original on 28 May 2007. Retrieved 28 January 2007.
- ^ "Keynes's Arts Council Suffers Rebuke in Budget Cuts: Commentary". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- ^ "British Academy announces 42 new fellows". Times Higher Education. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.