About Liz Forgan
Dame Elizabeth Anne Lucy Forgan (born 31 August 1944), known as Liz Forgan, is an English journalist, and radio and television executive. == Early life == Forgan was educated at Benenden School, Kent, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, then an all-female college. She initially worked on newspapers starting with the Teheran Journal as Arts Editor 1967–68, at the Hampstead and Highgate Express (1969–74), and on London's Evening Standard (1974–78, and later as a columnist 1997–98). She was editor of The Guardian's women's pages from 1978 to 1982, a Guardian columnist during 1997 and 1998, becoming a non-executive director of the Guardian Media Group from 1998. == Media management == Forgan was a founding commissioning editor and then Director of Programmes at the UK's Channel 4 from 1981 to 1990. She joined the BBC in 1993 to become managing director, BBC Network Radio where she developed the format for BBC Radio 5 Live and launched the BBC's digital radio service. At its launch, the BBC's digital radio service used the obsolete DAB standard with Forgan ignoring the recommendation of BBC engineers that the launch be delayed and strongly recommending the use of the soon to be ratified DAB+ technology which had to subsequently be adopted. She left the BBC in February 1996 over a disagreement with John Birt, then BBC Director General, over the decision to move BBC Radio News from Broadcasting House to Television Centre. Forgan was appointed the sixth chairman of The Scott Trust in 2003, the owner of the Guardian newspapers. == Public organisations == Between 2001 and 2008, Forgan was the Chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Heritage Lottery Fund.
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