Another gig for Dr Samir Shah at the BBC, appointed alongside Madeleine Sumption to lead a 'thematic review' of the coverage of 'major migration topics'.
Dr Shah CBE, 71 (Latymer Upper School, Geography and Maths at the University of Hull, D Phil, St Catherine’s College, Oxford) was first brought into the BBC by John Birt to run tv current affairs in 1987. He left in 1998, having acquired enough funds to buy indie Juniper TV. As CEO, he was invited to be a BBC Non-Exec by Mark Thompson in 2007 (cf Dr Mike Lynch). Juniper currently makes the weekly 'Politics London' and 'Politics South East' for the BBC, which I'm sure will come out as exemplars of migration coverage.
His brother, Mohit Bakaya, is Controller of Radio 4. His sister, Monisha Shah, a former executive at BBC Worldwide, is now a serial non-exec, and a member of the Ofcom Content Board. In 2008 Dr Shah said that the BBC's scale and culture created a "monolithic posture that makes it appear anti competitive".
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