Sara Nathan (broadcaster)

Sara Nathan (broadcaster)

Sara Catherine Nathan (born 1956) is a former British broadcaster who now sits on the boards of a number of public bodies.

Biography

She was a founder board member of OFCOM, where her term ended at the end of 2007, on the Regulatory Decision Committee of the Financial Services Authority from 2001 - 2007, and was a member of the ICSTIS PhonepayPlus Committee (which regulates premium rate telephony)until November 2008. She chairs The Animal Procedures Committee, a body that advises the British Home Secretary on matters related to animal experimentation in the UK.

She was a member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and of the Professional Conduct Committee of the Bar Council. Nathan was a Commissioner for the Marshall Scholarships until December 2006. Previously she was a BBC journalist for 15 years on Newsnight, Breakfast and the Money Programme. She was on the launch team for Radio 5Liver and was the first editor of the morning programme on the BBC's Radio 5 Live. After that she became Britain's first female editor of a TV Network news programme when she became Editor of Channel 4 Newsin 1995.

Sara has been an Editorial Adviser to the BBC Trust since January 2008.

She has been a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission since January 2006.

Sara was appointed to the board of the Solicitor's Regulation Authority in January 2010.

She was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours, announced on 14 June 2008.[1]

She was educated at Wimbledon High School, Cambridge University and Stanford University which she attended on a Harkness Fellowship.

Sara lives in Acton, London with her husband, the composer and Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Malcolm Singer and their two children.

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