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The board consists of the following members:<ref name="Board and Executive">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare|title=Who we are|website=About the BBC|date=1 April 2019|access-date=1 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401172417/https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare|archive-date=1 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/board-appointments|title=Board Appointment|website=BBC Media Centre|date=23 March 2017|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821172324/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/board-appointments|archive-date=21 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" !Name !Position ! colspan="2" |Term of office |- | rowspan="3" style="text-align:center;" |[[Elan Closs Stephens|Dame Elan Closs Stephens]], {{post-nominals|DBE}} | style="text-align:center;" |Acting [[Chairman of the BBC|Chairwoman]] | style="text-align:center;" |27 June 2023 | style="text-align:center;" |27 June 2024{{notetag|Appointed for a year or until a new permanent chair has been appointed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65787514|title=Dame Elan Closs Stephens appointed acting BBC chairwoman|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2 June 2023|access-date=2 June 2023|archive-date=2 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602115107/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65787514|url-status=live}}</ref>}} |- | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Member for Wales | style="text-align:center;" |20 July 2017 | style="text-align:center;" |19 July 2020 |- | style="text-align:center;" |20 January 2021 | style="text-align:center;" |20 July 2023 |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Tim Davie]], {{post-nominals|GB|CBE}} | style="text-align:center;" |[[Director-General of the BBC|Director-General]] | style="text-align:center;" |1 September 2020 | style="text-align:center;" |β |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Nicholas Serota]], {{post-nominals|GB|CH}} | style="text-align:center;" |Senior Independent Director | style="text-align:center;" |3 April 2017 | style="text-align:center;" |2 April 2024 |- | style="text-align:center;" |Shumeet Banerji | style="text-align:center;" |Non-executive Director | style="text-align:center;" |1 January 2022 | style="text-align:center;" |31 December 2025 |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Damon Buffini|Sir Damon Buffini]] | style="text-align:center;" |Non-executive Director and Deputy Chair{{notetag|The title of deputy chair is an honorary one held [[Ex officio member|ex-officio]] by the chair of the BBC's Commercial Board<ref>{{cite web|url=https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/whoweare/bbcboard/board-minutes-8-december-2022.pdf|page=6|title=Meeting of the BBC Board β Minutes β 8 December 2022|publisher=BBC|access-date=28 April 2023|archive-date=29 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429001034/https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/whoweare/bbcboard/board-minutes-8-december-2022.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>}} | style="text-align:center;" |1 January 2022 | style="text-align:center;" |31 December 2025 |- | style="text-align:center;" |Shirley Garrood | style="text-align:center;" |Non-executive Director | style="text-align:center;" |3 July 2019 | style="text-align:center;" |2 July 2023 |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Ian Hargreaves]], {{post-nominals|GB|CBE}} | style="text-align:center;" |Non-executive Director | style="text-align:center;" |2 April 2020 | style="text-align:center;" |2 April 2023 |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Robbie Gibb|Sir Robbie Gibb]] | style="text-align:center;" |Member for England | style="text-align:center;" |7 May 2021 | style="text-align:center;" |6 May 2024 |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Muriel Gray]] | style="text-align:center;" |Member for Scotland | style="text-align:center;" |3 January 2022 | style="text-align:center;" |2 January 2026 |- | style="text-align:center;" |''To be appointed by the [[Northern Ireland Executive]]'' | style="text-align:center;" |Member for Northern Ireland | style="text-align:center;" |β | style="text-align:center;" |β |- | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Charlotte Moore (TV executive)|Charlotte Moore]] | rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |Chief Content Officer | style="text-align:center;" |1 September 2020 | style="text-align:center;" |1 September 2022 |- | style="text-align:center;" |1 September 2022 | style="text-align:center;" |31 August 2024 |- | style="text-align:center;" |Leigh Tavaziva | style="text-align:center;" |Chief Operating Officer | style="text-align:center;" |1 February 2021 | style="text-align:center;" |31 January 2025 |- | style="text-align:center;" |[[Deborah Turness]] | style="text-align:center;" |CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs | style="text-align:center;" |5 September 2022 | 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