Sir Peter Bazalgette is Co-Chair of the Creative Industries Council and of the sector Industrial Strategy Task Force. Previously he led a 2017 independent review into the UK’s creative industries. He also chairs the Council of the Royal College of Art. From 2013 until 2017 he chaired Arts Council England. 

Peter is also Senior Independent Director on the board of Saga. From 2016 to 2022, he chaired ITV and previously served on the boards of YouGov and Channel 4. He spent many years as a TV producer, devising several internationally successful formats. He became chief creative officer of Endemol and was later President of the Royal Television Society.

Sir Peter has also been a non-executive board member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and chairs the Baillie Gifford Non-Fiction Book Prize Trustees. 

He’s currently on the board of the Department for Education and previously performed the same role for DCMS.

Peter’s book about the business of TV formats, Billion Dollar Game (Time Warner), came out in 2005, and in 2017 he published The Empathy Instinct (John Murray).