Dr Samir Shah CBE
Biography
Dr Shah is a Commissioner for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
Dr Samir Shah CBE is Chief Executive and Creative Director of Juniper, an independent television and radio production company.
His career started at London Weekend Television in 1979, and since then he has held positions as head of current affairs television at the BBC and, later, was responsible for the BBC’s political journalism across all radio and television.
Dr Shah has served as a Trustee and Deputy Chair of the V&A, a Non-Executive Director on the BBC Board and is current chair of One World Media.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2002 and, in 2019, was the Visiting Professor of Creative Media at Oxford University (Faculty of English).
Dr Shah is a member of the Nuffield Foundation Steering Group: Inequality in the Twenty First Century and The Deaton Review. He was also notably chair of the independent race equality think tank The Runnymede Trust for two decades and was a member of the Holocaust Commission.
In 2019 he was awarded a CBE for services to Television and Heritage.