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. He was also a Non-Executive on the Board and committees of an NHS Foundation Trust for 10 years.
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