Rt Hon. Lord Michael Grade of Yarmouth CBE

Michael Grade was, until April 2026, Chair of Ofcom, the regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications, postal industries and online safety.

He has had a long career in broadcasting, encompassing London Weekend Television, the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. He has chaired the BBC, ITV and Pinewood/Shepperton Film Studios.

He is co-founder of the GradeLinnit Company, which produces for the theatre.

He is Chair of Imagineear, which produces digital displays for museums, galleries and live attractions and of the project creation company, the Chiltern Vital Group He is also Chair of Arora Group’s Heathrow Expansion Advisory Board, having also been Chair of Ocado, First Leisure Corporation, Camelot, the Charity Fundraising Regulator and Bradford’s Media Museum. He was a member of the former Press Complaints Commission and was a Trustee of the Science Museum.

In 2011 he became a member of the House of Lords, where he sits as a Conservative Peer. He is known as Lord Grade of Yarmouth.