Fresh from the vaults of the "unknown bureacrat" magazine a name emerges
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/currie_quits_ofcom/Ofcom's first chairman Lord David Currie is to quit next year, the communications regulator has announced today. No replacement has been named.
Currie will unplug himself from the best-paid quango in all of quangistan at Easter. He will have completed almost seven years in the job, having started when Ofcom replaced Oftel in 2002.
His successor will be appointed by the Department of Culture Media and Sport and Department for Business, Employment and Regulatory Reform via a process that will begin in September.
As well as Ofcom chairman, Currie is a cross-bench peer (he used to be a member of the Tory party and the the Labour party), chairman of the Trillium Investment Fund, an advisor to Unisys (not including their communications sector work, we're assured) and a member of the Dubai Financial Services Authority.
Currie was appointed to the part-time Ofcom chair by Patricia Hewitt. She now sits on the board of BT.
Nice work while it lasted eh folks, pity the organisation itself is a complete let down for UK citizens, those in charge have been rather lackadasticle over defending users privacy and rip off ISP companies for a long time, good riddance to bad policy-enforcers I say.
