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BBC
Director General's Departure
The BBC today said it is engaged in "sensible succession
planning" to replace the director general Mark Thompson.
The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, said on Monday that head-hunters
had been appointed to search for Thompson's replacement.
But the BBC has insisted there is no "immediate vacancy".
Mark Thompson was appointed director general of the BBC in May 2004.
He is responsible for its services across television, radio and websites and
for a global workforce of 20,000.
It has been suggested for some time that Mark Thompson would step down after
the Olympics and no date has yet been given.
He took over in June 2004 and is already the longest-serving BBC director
general for more than 30 years.
Four of his five predecessors served five years or less.
On Monday, Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, told The Times that
head-hunters had been appointed so that when the time came, they'd have "an
intelligent view" of possible successors and the "job we would want them to
be doing".
He said that wasn't "the starting gun" and the BBC says there is no
immediate vacancy.
But bookmakers are already quoting odds on the likely candidates - amid
speculation that the next director-general could, for the first time, be a
woman.
January
27
2012 - waveguide.co.uk
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