Director-General of the BBC

Director-General of the BBC
Incumbent Tim Davie since 1 September 2020
Member of	BBC Board Executive Committee
Reports to	BBC Board Chairman of the BBC
Appointer	BBC Board
Formation	1927
First holder	Sir John Reith
Salary	£450,000

The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC.

The post-holder was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to 2017). Since 2017 the director-general has been appointed by the BBC Board.

To date, 17 individuals have been appointed director-general, plus an additional two who were appointed in an acting capacity only. The current director-general is Tim Davie, who succeeded Tony Hall on 1 September 2020.^[1]