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David Mellor
DAVID MELLOR is much in demand as an after dinner speaker due to his wide experience in politics, business and sport.
Politics
David Mellor won the marginal seat of Putney from Labour in 1979, and increased his majority at three successive elections, until his defeat in the Labour landslide of 1997, when the swing to Labour in Putney was one of the three lowest in Greater London.
David Mellor joined Mrs Thatcher’s Government in 1981, and was for four years her youngest Minister. Between 1981 and 1992 he served in six different Departments of State, including each of the big three - The Home Office, where he was Minister of State responsible for criminal justice policy for 5 years, the Foreign Office - where he was responsible for East-West relations and the Middle East, and the Treasury. He joined the Cabinet in 1990 as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, in charge of overall Government expenditure, and in May 1992 became founding Secretary of State at the department of National Heritage.
Since leaving politics, David Mellor has pursued a multi-faceted career as a Businessman, Broadcaster and Journalist.
He runs his own international business consultancy, where his clients include BAE Systems, Ernst & Young, and Britain’s biggest management consultants, Cap Gemini.
The Media
David Mellor has presented more than 400 programmes for BBC National Radio, on four of the BBC’s five national networks. For 8 years he has presented Radio5’s cult football show, 6.0.6., first on Saturdays, and now on Wednesday evenings. In his six seasons with the Saturday show, he increased the audience by 250% and was elected BBC Radio Personality of 1994 by the Variety Club.
For the last two years he has presented a Sunday lunch time programme on Classic FM, and has nearly doubled the audience for the slot to almost 1 million listeners.
On television, David Mellor hosted two seasons of BBC2’s “The Midnight Hour”.
David Mellor writes three weekly columns for national newspapers. He is Music Critic of the Mail on Sunday, a football columnist for the London Evening Standard, and writes the long established Man of the People column on current events for the Sunday People. For three years he was an Art’s columnist for the Guardian, and has also been a columnist for the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror.
Other Interests
For nearly two decades he was a Council member of the National Youth Orchestra, and is a past board member of the English National Opera, and the former Vice Chairman of the London Philharmonic Trust and President of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the regional orchestra for the South of England at whose concerts he first learned to love classical music.
In 1985 he was elected an Honorary Associate of the British Veterinary Association for services to animal welfare.
David Mellor was Chairman of the Governments Football Task Force from 1997 to 1999, and between 1993 to 1997 he was Chairman of the Sports Aid Foundation, the charity that pre-lottery, was responsible for financing the training costs of Britain’s Olympic athletes and developing new talent.
Finally, for better or worse, he is a dedicated supporter of Chelsea Football Club
