Dr David Levy

Director, Reuters Institute

Dr David Levy holds degrees from the Universities of York, LSE and a doctorate in 20th century French history from Nuffield College, Oxford.

In the past year he has served as the sole foreign member of the French Commission Pour la nouvelle télévision publique established by President Sarkozy to review the future of the French public service broadcaster, France Télévisions and jointly edited a book of essays for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Ofcom on the future of plurality in Public Service Broadcasting entitled 'The Price of Plurality: Choice, Diversity and Broadcasting Institutions in the Digital Age'. 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.

He was Controller, Public Policy at the BBC until 2007 where he led the BBC's policy for the recent 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, Routledge 1999/2001 and speaks regularly at industry and academic conferences in Britain and abroad.

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 and an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School, where he has been running a Seminar series in media and communications policy which aims to join up the worlds of policymakers, regulators and academia to tackle some of the most difficult regulatory, business and strategic challenges facing the sector.