Background
Gardam was born on 14 January 1956 to the novelist Jane Gardam.
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Tim Gardam
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He studied at Rokeby Preparatory School, Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a double first in English.
Career
Since 2004, he has been Principal of Street Anne"s College, Oxford. He subsequently worked at the British Broadcasting Corporation (where he created Timewatch and edited Newsnight), and as director of programmes at Channel 4. He was then appointed by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to lead a review of digital radio in Britain.
In January 2008, he began a three-year term on the board of Ofcom, the independent regulatory authority for the United Kingdom communications industries.
He was subsequently reappointed for a second three year term. In 2004, he was elected Principal of Street Anne"s College, Oxford, succeeding Ruth Deech.
In early 2016, Gardam announced that he would be stepping down as principal at the end of the academic year, in order to become chief executive of the Nuffield Foundation.
