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	Gavyn Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gavyn Davies (born 27 November 1950) was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004, a former Goldman Sachs banker and a former economic advisor to the British Government.
		Davies has in the past donated part of his wealth to the Labour Party of whom he had been a long-term supporter.
		It has been suggested that the behaviour of Davies and Greg Dyke during the David Kelly affair was in part due to a wish to demonstrate their independence of government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gavyn_Davies (453 words)

	Interview with Gavyn Davies
		GAVYN DAVIES, the chairman of the BBC, used to be known to many as a boring economist.
		For Davies, the charter marks a new chapter in the life of the BBC - it draws a line under the last five years' rapid expansion during which several new channels were launched.
		There is little competition between Davies and his three children when it comes to watching their favourite programmes because he has five sets.
	www.tvlicensing.biz /archive/interview_with_gavyn_davies.htm (1528 words)

	Media Medium: BBC - Gavyn Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gavyn Davies might covet the role of BBC chairman, but is this the
		As the current deputy-chair, Gavyn Davies (November 27 1950) is a star candidate to become chairman of the BBC.
		It's a close one to call as Davies is at the beginning of a big change, but this autumn, the spotlight on his horoscope and the BBC's falls on a Jupiter-Uranus connection.
	www.companyguide.co.uk /gm100901.htm (434 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Gavyn Davies
		For his part, Mr Davies was keen to issue a statement in support of the BBC in order to pre-empt the report of the foreign affairs committee.
		Davies: Mr Blair said that he continued to feel that the Gilligan story was wrong; he continued to think that the BBC should retract the story; he thought perhaps a good idea would be for us to say that it was valid to have broadcast the story but we should now retract it.
		Mr Davies rejected a suggestion that the governors should have seen Gilligan's notes before they discussed his story on July 6, saying they accepted the assurances of the news director, Richard Sambrook, that the source was "credible and reliable".
	www.guardian.co.uk /hutton/keyplayers/story/0,13842,1031929,00.html (1750 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Gavyn Davies: Outspoken defence
		Mr Davies' appointment in 2001 was met with accusations of cronyism.
		Mr Davies' wife Sue Nye is political secretary to Mr Brown and when the chancellor attempted to soften his image by posing with his then-fiancée Sarah Macaulay at a children's birthday party, it was in Mr Davies' London house with his son, Ben.
		Mr Davies' first taste of the BBC was as a guest economist on news programmes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3436707.stm (621 words)

	The Hutton Inquiry: reformatted transcripts
		MR DAVIES: The senior journalist said that he was going to a dinner or a reception, I think, in Westminster and that the terms of Mr Hoon's letter had been widely -- was being widely discussed among the journalists going to the meeting.
		MR DAVIES: The Governors are all appointed by Her Majesty the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister.
		MR DAVIES: They were certainly in a position to determine that, with the proviso that I do not think it would have been right and proper, it would have been highly irregular for them actually to have known who the source was.
	www.hutton.softblade.com /transcripts.php?action=transcript&session=43 (11263 words)

	Scoop: Streets Of London: Hutton Inquiry Update - Day 22
		Davies stated that the Governors were the supreme authority at the BBC and they were acting in a supervisory role in the dossier affair.
		Davies replied that the governors were “highly experienced and independent minded people" who worked for the BBC for little monetary gain and thus had no risen to back management for the sake of it.
		Davies replied that the governors were not interested in the source's job, but wanted an absolute assurance the person was in a position to make the allegations, which Mr.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0309/S00228.htm (1066 words)

	The Observer \| Politics \| Bully Ministers will wreck us - BBC chairman
		The fractured relationship between the BBC and the Government took another plunge last night when Gavyn Davies, the BBC chairman, said that the corporation's independence was being threatened by political bullying.
		Davies, using unusually strong language, said the BBC would not be cowed and that Government-backed attacks on the corporation amounted to an attempt to undermine the organisation's integrity and the work of the BBC governors.
		Davies said the BBC governors, the independent panel that oversees standards, were a 'barrier between the BBC's editorial processes and political bullying'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /politics/story/0,6903,1006939,00.html (1013 words)

	'In Gavyn Davies we trust...' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Davies was asked not to tell the panel of what he had seen, in case they were distracted.
		Davies confirmed that as an expert on international economic affairs he had until last year (when he was already Deputy Chairman of the BBC) given lectures at the invitation of Enron, - the American corporation that has now collapsed.
		It meant "making the good popular and the popular good." Gavyn Davies was not interested in being a Chairman who allowed the BBC to be marginalised, like PBS in the United States.
	www.lse.ac.uk /collections/alumniRelations/news/20020305t1350z001.htm (590 words)

	BBC - Press Office - Gavyn Davies
		Gavyn Davies was appointed Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors for five years from 1 October 2001.
		Gavyn Davies was born on 27 November 1950 and graduated in economics from St John's College, Cambridge in 1972, followed by two years of research at Balliol College, Oxford.
		He was an economic adviser to the 10 Downing Street Policy Unit from 1976 to 1979 and economist with Phillips and Drew from 1979 to 1981.
	www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/biographies/biogs/boardofgovernors/gavyndavies.shtml (273 words)

	Gavyn Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On 28th January 2004 he announced thathe was resigning his BBC post following the publication of the HuttonInquiry report which heavily criticised the organisation.
		Davies has in the past donated part of hiswealth to the Labour Party of whom he has been along-term supporter.
		It has been suggested that the behaviour of Davies and Greg Dyke during the David Kelly affair was in part due to a wish to demonstrate theirindependence of government.
	www.therfcc.org /gavyn-davies-162969.html (381 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Politics - Davies quits, but goes down fighting
		GAVYN Davies, the chairman of the BBC board of governors, last night fell on his sword over a 90-second broadcast that had been scheduled as nothing more than "chatter in the air".
		Mr Davies reflected very carefully - and quit, but not without a staunch defence of the corporation as it faced one of its biggest crises since it was formed in 1922.
		As the BBC chairman, Mr Davies was at the forefront of the charge to defend Mr Gilligan and the corporation from the vituperative attacks of Alastair Campbell.
	news.scotsman.com /politics.cfm?id=111172004 (2096 words)

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		Gavyn Davies - 25% unhappy with BBC fee - but a large proportion value it more than the cost
		A quarter of households believe that the BBC is not worth the licence fee, former chair of the BBC Governors Gavyn Davies said yesterday.
		Research commissioned while Mr Davies was still with the corporation and published yesterday by the Social Market Foundation, showed that six million households were unhappy paying the £121 annual licence fee.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=5378988&postID=110302307399125682 (176 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Gavyn Davies has resigned
		Mr Davies handed in his notice at 5pm at an informal meeting of the governors, who were heavily criticised for failing to act as a check on the corporation's "defective" journalistic practices.
		Lord Hutton lambasted Mr Davies and his colleagues on the board for their failure to check the facts behind Andrew Gilligan's report and the speed with which they squared up to the government without first quizzing management on the merits of the story.
		Mr Davies warned his fellow governors, who were fearful that the government was using the issue as a stick with which to beat the corporation in the run-up to charter renewal.
	www.guardian.co.uk /hutton/story/0,13822,1133437,00.html (1668 words)

	Digital Spy: Gavyn Davies appointed BBC Chairman
		The Government has announced that Gavyn Davies has been appointed as BBC Chairman for five years from 1 October, following the resignation of Sir Christopher Bland to become Chairman of BT.
		Gavyn Davies has been Vice-Chairman of the BBC since January 2001.
		Gavyn Davies said: “It is without doubt the greatest thrill and privilege of my professional life to have emerged from an open public appointment process as the next Chairman of the BBC.
	www.digitalspy.co.uk /article/ds3803.html (567 words)

	BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
		The appointment of Gavyn Davies is made in succession to Baroness Young of Old Scone whose appointment ended on 27 November 2000.
		Gavyn Davies (50) is Chief International Economist and a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs.
		Gavyn Davies has not undertaken any significant political activity in the last five years.
	www.pm.gov.uk /output/page2890.asp (178 words)

	Former BBC head attacks Blair government over Iraq war
		In the last weeks, Gavyn Davies, former head of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has made a number of outspoken attacks on the Blair government, accusing it of conducting a witch-hunt against the broadcaster over its reporting of the Iraq war.
		Davies was forced to resign as chair of the BBC, following the report produced by Lord Hutton into the death of Britain’s leading weapons inspector, Doctor David Kelly, in July 2003.
		Davies is not the only one to have raised doubts over the Hutton findings in the last days.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jul2004/davi-j14.shtml (1291 words)

	BBC chairman resigns over Kelly affair. 29/01/2004. ABC News Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) chairman Gavyn Davies has resigned after the public broadcaster was lambasted by a judicial inquiry for its role in the Dr David Kelly affair, the public broadcaster said.
		The first word that 53-year-old Mr Davies, who is close to several members of Mr Blair's government, was to resign came from the BBC's well-connected political editor Andrew Marr.
		Mr Davies had been chairman of the BBC governors, the guardians of the public broadcaster's independence, since September 2001.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/s1033588.htm (432 words)

	Observer \| Excellence is not a sin
		Which may explain why Gavyn Davies, chairman of the BBC Board of Governors, told the well-educated middle classes to keep their grubby paws off his Auntie.
		Excellence, Davies would have us believe, is not a universal, understood by all people everywhere, but a feature that changes in the eyes of the beholder, depending on their particular socio-economic, ethnic and racial profile.
		Yes, excellence does sometimes come in three-syllable packages - but Gavyn Davies should not despair: hook a viewer with a quality programme, and you'll be surprised at how they'll get round having to look up the difficult words in the OED - even if only the next day, with a trip to the public library.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4375828-102273,00.html (767 words)

	Variety.com - Davies ankles BBC chair
		LONDON -- BBC chairman Gavyn Davies has ankled just hours after the pubcasterpubcaster bore the brunt of the criticism of law lord James Hutton's inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly, the source of the controversial BBC report claiming the government lied to justify the war in Iraq.
		Davies' decision to quit Wednesday comes less than a month after he mounted a robust defense of the BBC's role in the battle over Kelly.
		In a statement, Davies said the governors had accepted "with great reluctance and regret" his resignation, which he would tender to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117899167?categoryid=1676&cs=1 (908 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Blair cleared, BBC battered but 'whitewash' claims grow
		Gavyn Davies resigned as BBC Chairman after being criticised in the report.
		Within hours, the first casualty was Gavyn Davies, the chairman of the BBC, who resigned after Lord Hutton’s verdict that the BBC had made a series of "defective" editorial decisions.
		But Mr Davies used his resignation statement to articulate the disbelief felt by many at the apparently one-sided nature of Lord Hutton’s conclusions.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=111792004 (1401 words)

	"Excellente année" pour la BBC - Communiqué de presse
		Launching the Annual Report and Accounts for 2002/2003, BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies said the past year had been a "very strong" one for the BBC.
		Mr Davies points to a clear improvement in range and ambition of programmes, especially on BBC ONE, which confirmed its position as the UK's most watched channel.
		Mr Davies and the BBC Governors believe that the BBC responded very effectively to the two events which dominated the year - The Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations and the war in Iraq.
	ebu.ch /news/press_archive/press_breves_156bis_BBC_PR.php?display=FR (941 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		Tories protested after learning that Gavyn Davies, the millionaire chief economist at American bankers Goldman Sachs, is due to be confirmed today to one of the most influential positions in public life.
		Mr Davies and Greg Dyke, director-general, have donated thousands of pounds to Labour while Mr Davies's wife, Sue Nye, is an adviser to Gordon Brown.
		Mr Davies was on a shortlist of six candidates which included David Dimbleby, the broadcaster, and Lady Jay, the former leader of the House of Lords.
	www.prisonplanet.com /Blair_crony_is_tipped_as_new_chairman_of_BBC.htm (671 words)

	Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke,
		Le président de la BBC Gavyn Davies Greg Dyke a démissionné jeudi de son poste de directeur général de la BBC, 24 heures a.
		Le président de la BBC Gavyn Davies Emboîtant le pas du dernier président de la BBC Gavyn Davies, première victime du rapp.
		Media: Campbell was out to get us; In January, Gavyn Davies became the first BBC casualty of the Hutton inquiry.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0921157.html (415 words)

	Gavyn Davies for BBC chairman - Mobile & Wireless - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		Gavyn Davies is expected to be appointed chairman of the BBC in a move that is already being slammed as Labour cronyism.
		Current vice-chairman and chief economist at Goldman Sachs, Davies is a confirmed Labour supporter, and his appointment (in tandem with pro-Labour director general Greg Dyke) has set Tories fuming.
		Davies' appointment will free up current part-time chairman Sir Christopher Bland to concentrate on his other job - the chairmanship of BT.
	networks.silicon.com /mobile/0,39024665,11027499,00.htm (407 words)

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