Lord Puttnam

Lord Puttnam

Full title

The Lord Puttnam CBE

Name

David Puttnam

Party/group

Labour

Joined the Lords

27 October 1997

Contact details

House of Lords, London, SW1A 0PW
Tel: 020 7219 6822
puttnamd@parliament.uk

Biography

UK Parliament

Committee House Date
Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee) (Chairman) Lords 2007-07
Draft Climate Change Bill (Joint Committee) Lords 2007-07
Information Committee (L) Lords 2005-09
Draft Communications Bill (Joint Committee) Lords 2002-02

Professional life

Job title Organisation Date
Independent Film Producer Enigma Productions Ltd 1968-

Public life

Post Organisation Date
President Film Distributors Association 2009-
Trustee The Eden Project 2009-
Chairman North Music Trust (The Stage Gateshead) 2007-
Chancellor Open University 2006-
Trustee Thompson Foundation 2003-
President UNICEF UK 2002-09
Founding Chair Teaching Awards 1998-08

Member's focus

Policy
Culture, media and sport
Education
Employment and training
Energy and environment
Parliament, government and politics.
UK
North East England
World
Ireland
Singapore
USA.

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.

    • President, Film Distributors Association (independent Chair of industry body)
    • Consultant, TSL Advisory Board (TSL Education Ltd publishes the Times Educational Supplement among other things)
  • 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)

    • Ambassador, UNICEF UK
    • Trustee, Thompson Foundation
    • Trustee, Eden Project
    • Trustee, Mohamed S. Farsi Foundation

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