Mike Green
Biography
A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a graduate of the London School of Economics, Mike qualified as a chartered accountant with what is now KPMG and spent 11 years with the audit practice before a 20 year career in Commercial Television. He has held senior finance roles at TVS Television Limited and Carlton Communications plc and was involved in the Carlton/Granada merger which formed ITV plc. Following the merger, Mike moved to ITV and ultimately held the role of Deputy Group Finance Director. He has also represented ITV on a number of joint venture boards in the UK and internationally.
Currently Mike is a Director, Audit Committee Chair and a member of the Service Quality Committee at Anchor Hanover, a housing association specialising in older people’s housing and operating over 100 care homes. Mike is also a Trustee of the Royal Television Society, a charity advancing public education in the practice, technology, art and science of television, and a director of the not for profit, Copyright Hub Foundation, which aims to make the process of giving and getting permission for copyright works fit for purpose in the age of the internet.
Non-executive Director
The Government Legal Department’s non-executive directors have a range of responsibilities including:
- providing an independent perspective and constructive challenge of the executive function to ensure that the most appropriate business and management processes are in place
- supporting the Permanent Secretary (the Treasury Solicitor)
- engaging in budget panel review meetings
- monitoring and challenging the department’s performance in relation to its objectives, commitments and its strategy