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Richard Hooper
CBE
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 o ...
is a former UK civil servant. He was Deputy Chairman of
OFCOM between 2002 and 2005.
Career
His began his career as a radio and TV producer in the
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, and was a founder of the
Open University
The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...
. Between 1972 and 1977 he was Director of NDPCAL,
National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning
The National Development Programme in Computer Aided Learning (NDPCAL) was the earliest large-scale education programme in the United Kingdom to explore the use of computers for teaching and learning.
First proposed in 1969 to the Department of Ed ...
, a government funded project that ran from 1973 until 1977, costing £2.5M and supporting some 35 projects covering schools, colleges, universities, industrial and military training.
[http://www.edtechhistory.org.uk/history/the_1970s/ndpcal.html] At
BT he ran the world's first commercial videotex service,
Prestel
Prestel (abbrev. from press telephone), the brand name for the UK Post Office Telecommunications's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979. It achieved a maxim ...
. He ran the pan-European satellite television channel Super Channel owned by the
ITV companies. He was Chairman of the Radio Authority from 2000 to 2003, Deputy Chairman of Ofcom from 2002 to 2005, and Chairman of
Informa from 2005 to 2007.
He carried out the independent review of the
Royal Mail for
Peter Mandelson
Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson (born 21 October 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as First Secretary of State from 2009 to 2010. He was President of the Board of Trade in 1998 and from 2008 to 2010. He is the ...
and
Vince Cable
Sir John Vincent Cable (born 9 May 1943) is a British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served in the Cabinet as ...
which recommended privatisation.
He currently is Chair of the
Broadband Stakeholder Group and the Copyright Hub Launch Group, which came out of the review of copyright licensing Richard did for Vince Cable in 2011/12. He is senior independent director on the boards of
hibu plc
Hibu Inc. (styled hibü), formerly Yellowbook Inc., is a provider of digital marketing and advertising solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses across the US. Hibu’s specialties includes web development and hosting, digital listings and ...
(formerly Yell Group plc) and
VocaLink Holdings Ltd.
Personal life
He is married to the Australian writer and historian,
Meredith Hooper
Meredith Hooper is an Australian historian and writer.
Early life
She was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. Hooper graduated in history from the University of Adelaide, then studied imperial history at Oxford.
Career
She is a membe ...
, and lives in North London. He is the father of film director
Tom Hooper
Thomas George Hooper (born 5 October 1972)''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005''. 5d: 2485. is a British-Australian filmmaker.
Hooper began making short films as a teenager and had his first professional short, ...
.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Living people
BBC radio producers
BBC television producers
British Telecom people
ITV people
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