Helen Boaden - Non-Executive Director
Helen became Chair of Windsor Leadership in 2022. Previously Helen spent 34 years at the BBC, starting as a reporter in local radio and ending on the Executive Board as Director of BBC Radio. In between, she ran Radio 4 and was the first female Director of BBC News in charge of 8000 people at home and abroad. She won several major awards for her radio journalism and under her leadership, Radio 4 was named Sony Station of the Year for two consecutive years.
She was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy in 2017. She now sits on the Center’s Advisory Board as well as on the Advisory Board for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
In 2018 she produced The Boaden Review for the Irish public service broadcaster, RTE, on the future of its orchestras. She is Chair of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, sits on the Council of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, is a Non Executive member of the UK Statistics Authority, chairs the Audio Content Fund and is Deputy Chair of Cancer Care Map. She is a board member of the York and North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership and holds the honorary position of President of HF Holidays.
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