Dr David Levy

Director

David Levy  became RISJ Director in September 2008. Earlier that year he served as the sole foreign member of the French Commission established by President Sarkozy to review the future of the French public service broadcaster, France Télévisions.

In Autumn 2007, he was a visitor to the Center for Global Communications Studies at the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.  In May 2011 he was appointed as a member of the Content Board of the UK Communications Regulator Ofcom and has been a non Executive Board member of the French international Broadcaster France 24 since 2009.

He was Controller, Public Policy at the BBC until 2007 where he led the BBC's policy for the Charter Review and was in charge of public policy & regulation. His areas of expertise include modernising public service broadcasting, public service reform, the impact of digital technology, and media ownership and regulation both within the UK and Europe.

Prior to his BBC policy role he worked as a journalist, first for the BBC World Service and then for BBC News and Current Affairs; as a radio producer and reporter on File on 4; as a TV reporter on Newsnight, and as Editor of Analysis on Radio 4. He is the author of Europe's Digital Revolution: Broadcasting Regulation, the EU and the Nation State, Routledge 1999/2001, and joint editor with Tim Gardam of ‘The Price of Plurality’ (Reuters Institute/Ofcom  2008), with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen of ‘The Changing Business of Journalism and its Implications for Democracy’ (Reuters Institute 2010)  and with Robert G Picard of  ‘Is there a Better Structure for News Providers? The Potential in Charitable and Trust ownership’ (Reuters Institute 2011). He speaks regularly at industry and academic events and comments on media issues for outlets in Britain and abroad. Articles by him can be found under the news section of the website. 

In addition to his role as Director of the RISJ, Dr Levy is a consultant working in the areas of media policy and strategy and public service reform, an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, a member of the General Purposes Committee of the Department of Politics and International Relations, of the Management Committee of the Oxford Internet Institute and a Governing Body Fellow of Green Templeton College.  He holds degrees from the Universities of York, LSE and a doctorate from Nuffield College, Oxford.

Selected Publications

Selected Articles

Levy, D, Paying for the BBC, Guardian 18.08.08

Levy, D. A.L  Télévision publique ou télévision d’Etat, Le Monde, 02.07.08

Levy, D, It’s Sarko TV, Guardian 14.07.08

Levy, D. (August 1997), "Regulating Digital Broadcasting in Europe: The Limits of Policy Convergence", West European Politics

Levy, D. (August 1997), "The Regulation of digital conditional access systems: A case study in European policy making", Telecommunications Policy

Books

T. Gardam & D. A. L Levy (editors) The Price of Plurality, Choice, Diversity and Broadcasting Institutions in the Digital Age, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2008

Levy, D.A.L, An Independent NHS: What’s in it for patients and citizens?, Picker Institute, Oxford www.pickereurope.org

Levy, D. (1999/2001), Europe’s Digital Revolution: Broadcasting regulation, the EU and the nation state, Routledge

D. Helm et al (2005), (jointly edited) Can the Market Deliver? Funding Public Service TV in the Digital Age, John Libbey

Book Chapters

Levy, D (2008) “Towards a New Communications Act”, in Gardam & Levy (Eds), The Price of Plurality, Reuters Institute, 2008

Levy, D. (2003) "The European Information Society", in Rhodes (Ed), Developments in West European Politics, Macmillan

Levy, D. (2003) "The UK Model of Public Service Broadcasting", in Eds F Sojcher & P. Benghozi (Eds) Quel modèle audiovisuel européene, L’Harmattan