Director-General of the BBC

The Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC.

The position was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC and is now appointed by the BBC Trust.

Director General	Tenure	Time in post
Sir John Reith, later The Lord Reith	1927–1938	11 years
Sir Frederick Ogilvie	1938–1942	4 years
Sir Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot	1942–1943	1 year
Robert W. Foot	1943–1944	1 year
Sir William Haley	1944–1952	8 years
Sir Ian Jacob	1952–1959	7 years
Sir Hugh Greene	1960–1969	9 years
Sir Charles Curran	1969–1977	8 years
Sir Ian Trethowan	1977–1982	5 years
Alasdair Milne	1982–1987	5 years
Sir Michael Checkland	1987–1992	5 years
Sir John Birt, later The Lord Birt	1992–2000	8 years
Greg Dyke	2000–2004	4 years
Mark Byford (acting)	January – June 2004	5 months
Mark Thompson	2004–2012	8 years
George Entwistle	2012	54 days
Tim Davie (acting)	2012–2013	141 days
The Lord Hall of Birkenhead	April 2013 – present	In post

External links

• The BBC press office's biographical list of its Directors General
• Portraits of BBC Directors-General