Contact details
Westminster
House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6822
Fax: 020 7219 5794
puttnamd@parliament.uk
Biography
Councils, public bodies
Chair, British Council TV and Video Advisory Panel 1987-97;
Member:
British Screen Advisory Council 1988-98,
Arts Council Lottery Panel 1995-98;
Member, Government's Education Standards Task Force 1997-2001;
Chair:
British Council Arts Advisory Committee 2002-04,
Hansard Commission “Parliament in the Public Eye” 2004-05
International bodies
Fellow, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland;
President, UNICEF UK 2002-09
Political interests
Education, culture, environment
Countries of interest
Ireland, USA
Name, style and title
Raised to the peerage as Baron Puttnam, of Queensgate in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 1997
Register of Interests
1: Directorships
Deputy Chair, Profero (digital marketing)
Senior Non-executive Director, Promethean World plc (technology hardware)
Chairman, Advisory Board, Bulgari Knightsbridge Palace Hotel (hotels and leisure)
Director, Enigma Productions Ltd (film & tv)
2: Remunerated employment, office, profession etc.
Consultant, TSL Advisory Board (TSL Education Ltd publishes the Times Educational Supplement among other things)
President, Film Distributors Association (independent Chair of industry body)
4: Shareholdings (b)
Promethean World plc (technology hardware)
All other holdings are held in two pension funds which are run by Rathbones and administered by N M Rothschild
10: Non-financial interests (a)
Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
Digital Champion (appointed by Minister of Communications, Republic of Ireland)
10: Non-financial interests (b)
Chancellor, Open University
Adjunct Professor in Film Studies and Digital Humanities, University College Cork, Ireland
10: Non-financial interests (d)
Deputy Chair, Hansard Society
10: Non-financial interests (e)
Trustee, Mohamed S. Farsi Foundation
Ambassador, UNICEF UK
Trustee, Thompson Foundation
Trustee, Eden Project