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David Hendon CBE FREng FIET

David HendonInterim Director General, Business

Biography

David Hendon was appointed as interim Director General, Business in August 2010. Prior to this he was Director, Information Economy in Business Group since April 2002, where he was responsible for BIS’s business-facing activities and policy in communications and broadcasting networks, internet, software and computer services, information security, electronics, digital content, media, publishing, and postal sectors.

David was previously Chief Executive of the Radiocommunications Agency, which managed UK radio spectrum prior to the establishment of the converged communications regulator Ofcom. His earlier career included appointments in the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, Cabinet Office and the then Department of Trade & Industry.

An electronics engineer by profession, David is a Council member of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and was Chairman of the Board of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute from 1996 to 1999.