Margaret Adela Miriam Carver
DL (née Hall; born 10 July 1964) is an English businesswoman. She is currently Deputy Chairman of
Ofcom, and Chair of The Licoricia of Wincheste
Appeal She was Interim Chairman of Ofcom between January 2021 and April 2022, and the first woman Chairman of
ITN, leading horseracing organisation the RCA, and the British Board of Film Classification.
Early life
Carver was born in
Sutton-on-Hull, Yorkshire and brought up in
Beverley
Beverley is a market and minster town and a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, of which it is the county town. The town centre is located south-east of York's centre and north-west of City of Hull.
The town is known fo ...
, where she attended
Beverley High School. Her father is Dr
Ivan Hall, an
architectural historian
An architectural historian is a person who studies and writes about the history of architecture, and is regarded as an authority on it.
Professional requirements
As many architectural historians are employed at universities and other facilities ...
and expert on the architect
John Carr of York. Her mother, Elisabeth Hall, came from a distinguished
Hamburg
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family and emigrated to the UK in 1938. She attended
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
St Edmund Hall (sometimes known as The Hall or informally as Teddy Hall) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. The college claims to be "the oldest surviving academic society to house and educate undergraduates in any universit ...
, where she received a MA in
Biochemistry
Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A sub-discipline of both chemistry and biology, biochemistry may be divided into three fields: structural biology, enzymology and ...
. Her principal interests at school and university were music and sport. At school she gained a county scholarship to study the flute with David Butt, principal flute at the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orchestras not to be self-governing. T ...
. She played in several youth orchestras including the National Youth Wind Orchestra (principal flute), the Anglo-German Youth Orchestra and the Oxford University Orchestra. In 1986 she studied the flute at the
Paris Conservatoire
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
Superieure de Musique, and subsequently gained an ARCM from the
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performanc ...
in that instrument. She set up a professional wind quintet “Heirs and Graces”. She was a keen sportswoman, representing her school, county and Oxford University. While at school she trained with Olympic long-jumper,
Sue Hearnshaw
Susan Christina "Sue" Richardson (née Hearnshaw, formerly Telfer, born 26 May 1961) is a retired British athlete who competed mainly in the long jump. She won the 1984 Olympic bronze medal in the long jump, having won the European Indoor title ...
at the Hull Spartan Athletics Club.
Career
After leaving St Edmund Hall, on the advice of her mentor,
Lord Moser
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, (24 November 1922 – 4 September 2015) was a British statistician who made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service (United Kingdom), Civil Service. He prided himself rather on being a non-mathe ...
, Carver began working for
SG Warburg, firstly in the Banking Division, then as an analyst at SG Warburg Securities in Tokyo, and subsequently in Corporate Finance. After leaving SG Warburg, she worked for
Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick
Clive Richard Hollick, Baron Hollick (born 20 May 1945) is a British businessman with media interests, and a supporter of the Labour Party.
Early life and career
Hollick was born in Southampton, the son of Olive Mary (''née'' Scruton) and ...
, Chief Executive of MAI plc (now
UBM plc
UBM plc was a British business-to-business (B2B) events organiser headquartered in London, England, before its acquisition by Informa in 2018. It had a long history as a multinational media company. Its main focus was on B2B events, but its pr ...
) in corporate affairs, during which time she helped establish and was on the executive board of
Meridian Television
ITV Meridian (previously Meridian Broadcasting) is the holder of the ITV franchise for the South and South East of England. The station was launched at 12:00 am on 1 January 1993, replacing previous broadcaster Television South, and is owned ...
, and joined the boards of
Satellite Information Services
Sports Information Services (SIS) is a company which provides content and production services to the betting industry; such as horse racing and greyhound racing, to betting shops in the United Kingdom and Ireland and other worldwide destinati ...
(SIS), and Avenir Havas Media SA. She then worked as
CEO of Three on Four Ltd, a company producing sports and music outside broadcasting including
Sky
The sky is an unobstructed view upward from the surface of the Earth. It includes the atmosphere and outer space. It may also be considered a place between the ground and outer space, thus distinct from outer space.
In the field of astronomy, ...
football and
Channel 4 Racing. Since then she has served as a non-executive director on the boards of
Sporting Index (Holdings) plc, Link Licensing Limited,
Channel Five, SDN Limited, RDF Media Group plc,
British Waterways
British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom. It served as the navigation authority for the majority of canals and a number of rivers and docks in England, Scotlan ...
, the
Eden Project
The Eden Project ( kw, Edenva) is a visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell.Ordnance Survey (2005). ''OS ...
,
Services Sound and Vision Corporation
The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) was a British registered charity.
Set up in 1982 from the merger of the Services Kinema Corporation (SKC) and the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) to "entertain and inform Britain's Arm ...
and the
Horserace Betting Levy Board
The Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB), commonly abbreviated to the Levy Board, is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the United Kingdom. It is a statutory body established by the Betting Le ...
, and the British Horseracing Authority. Between 2006 and 2017 she was joint owner and director of Carver Care and Mobility, an online and retail mobility specialist. She has served as Chairman of the
British Board of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC, previously the British Board of Film Censors) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of f ...
(BBFC) Racetech, ITN
and the RCA.
Carver was appointed
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
(CBE) in the
2021 New Year Honours for services to sport and the media sector and a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire (DL) in September 2022.
Other appointments
Carver has served on the Advisory Council of the Rehearsal Orchestra, and governor of the Colville Nursery School in
North Kensington
North Kensington is an area of west London. It is north of Notting Hill and south of Kensal Green and in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The names North Kensington and Ladbroke Grove describe the same area.
North Kensington is wh ...
.
Family
Married to William Carver, whom she met at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, she has two children.
References
External links
The Racecourse Association
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1964 births
Living people
Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
British chief executives
Women corporate executives
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire