Mark damazer biography

Mark started work in broadcasting in as a trainee journalist with ITN. He moved to the BBC World Service in and embarked on a career spanning nearly..

Mark David Damazer, CBE, is a former Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra in the United Kingdom.

Mark has extensive experience in broadcasting having spent nearly 30 years at the BBC, where he worked as a journalist and in management roles within BBC.

Mark started work in broadcasting in as a trainee journalist with ITN. He moved to the BBC World Service in and embarked on a career spanning nearly.

Mark Damazer is known for Election (), Christmas University Challenge () and NewsWatch ().

Of BBC Radio 4, Mark Damazer has been firmly at the heart of some of the biggest stories and controversies of the late 20th and early 21st.

Mark Damazer

English BBC radio executive (born 1955)

Mark David Damazer, CBE (born 15 April 1955), is a former Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra in the United Kingdom.

Early life and education

Damazer was born on 15 April 1955.^[2] He is the son of a Polish-Jewishdelicatessen owner in Willesden in North London. He is the younger brother of Benjamyn Damazer JP DL.

Damazer was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School,^[1] an independent day school in the village of Elstree in Hertfordshire. He then studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (from 1974), where he graduated with a double starred first.^[3] After graduating, Damazer took up a Harkness Fellowship to study at the John F.

Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[4]

Career

Damazer returned to England to train at ITN in 1980, with fellow trainees Edward Stourton and Michael Crick