Mark Damazer

Mark Damazer
Born	15 April 1955
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Occupation	Media executive
Spouse(s)	Rosemary Morgan
Children	1 son, 1 daughter

Mark David Damazer, CBE (born 15 April 1955) is the Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 7 in the United Kingdom.

Mark Damazer was born on 15 April 1955. He is the son of a Polish-Jewish delicatessen owner in Willesden in North London.

He studied history at Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University from 1974, where he gained a double starred first in 1977. At Cambridge he had a relationship with Enoch Powell's daughter, Jenny Powell. Enoch Powell thanked him in his biography of Joseph Chamberlain. After graduating, he took up a Harkness Fellowship at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Damazer returned to England to train at ITN in 1980, with fellow trainees Edward Stourton and Michael Crick. He joined the BBC World Service as a current affairs producer in 1981. From 1982 to 1984, he worked at TV-am, returning to BBC News in 1984. He joined Newsnight as an editor in January 1986. In August 1988, he became deputy editor of the Nine O'Clock News, becoming editor in 1990. In 1994, he became Editor of Television News Programmes, then Head of Current Affairs in May 1996. He became Head of Political Programmes in March 1998. He became Assistant Director of BBC News in December 1999, then Deputy Director in April 2001. He was appointed Controller of Radio 4 and BBC7 in October 2004, taking over from Helen Boaden. In 2006, he was involved in a controversy over his decision to replace the Radio 4 UK Theme with a "pacy news briefing, read by one of Radio 4's team of news readers". He is a Fellow of The Radio Academy.

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