Speakers

Anthony is Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Magic Lantern. He is a BAFTA, RTS and Peabody Award-winning interactive media producer who has worked on Top Gear, Doctor Who, Teletubbies, Spooks, FourDocs, The Guardian, Sony Playstation and many others. He was also recently the Creative Director of the successful Plymouth component of the England 2018 FIFA World Cup Bid. Anthony works extensively in media policy, currently as a Member of the Content Board of Ofcom as well as having advised government departments including DCMS and DCSF. Anthony has previously been Vice-Chair of PACT, Chair of the UK Digital Content Forum and a member of the Steering Board of the DCMS Creative Economy Programme. In 2008, he was News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the University of Oxford and has recently taken up a Visiting Professorship at Bournemouth University. He advises Arts Council England as their Digital Media Associate, is a member of the Board of the English National Opera and Chair of Lighthouse in Brighton. Anthony was awarded the OBE for services to media and creative industries in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008. He is thirty-nine years of age, married with two young children and lives in East Sussex.