Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture 2024
Event
The Principal and Fellows of St Edmund Hall, and The Trustees of the Philip Geddes Memorial Prize are pleased to invite you to the 2024 Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture.
Event Details
Sky News’ Sophy Ridge – a former student of Teddy Hall – will interview the CEO of the Media Regulator Ofcom, Dame Melanie Dawes.
Topics will include the future UK regulatory framework; the role of Artificial Intelligence in digital transformation; the plurality of news services; the future of public service broadcasting; as well the advice and insights Dame Melanie, as a former Oxford undergraduate, would give to students considering careers in the public sector. The interview will be followed by questions from the audience.
Location: North School, Examinations School, Oxford
This is a free public lecture. All are welcome to attend.
About the Speaker
Dame Melanie Dawes joined Ofcom as an Executive Board Member and Chief Executive on 2 March 2020.
Prior to joining Ofcom, Melanie was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2015-2020). She has held senior roles across the Civil Service, working in partnership across the public and private sectors. She became the overall Champion for Diversity and Inclusion in the Civil Service in 2019.
She started her career as an economist and spent 15 years at the Treasury, including as Europe Director. She was Director General of the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat at the Cabinet Office between 2011 and 2015, and prior to that she served on the Board of HMRC as Head of Business Tax. She was Director General for Business Tax from November 2007, which involved responsibility for all the business taxes and duties as well as leadership of the department’s relationships with big business. From 2009, she also led the development of HMRC’s overall strategy as a department.
She has held non-executive roles including with the consumer body Which? and is a trustee of the Patchwork Foundation, which promotes the participation of under-represented young people in democracy.
Registration
Attendees must register for the lecture.
Please note that this lecture will be recorded and published on St Edmund Hall’s digital and print communication platforms where appropriate.
There will also be photography and social media at the event. If you do not wish to appear in any of the photos, please contact a member of staff to let them know.
Contact
Please email any enquiries to geddes@seh.ox.ac.uk.