Independent advisor & panel
biographiesTim Gardam
Principal Elect of St Anne's College, Oxford, previously Director of Television and Director of Programmes at Channel 4.Tim Gardam is Principal Elect of St Anne's College, Oxford. Prior to this he was Director of Television and Director of Programmes at Channel 4 for five years, from November 1998 to November 2003. He was Controller of News and Documentaries at Channel Five where he was a founding member of the editorial team (1996–1998). He began his career as a journalist at the BBC from 1977 to 1996, during which time he founded the history programme Timewatch and served as Editor of Panorama and of Newsnight. Between 1993 and 1996 Tim Gardam was Head of Current Affairs for BBC television and radio.