Lord Stephen Carter

Before becoming Informa’s Group Chief Executive, Stephen was President and Managing Director EMEA at Alcatel Lucent Inc., Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of ntl (now Virgin Media) and Managing Director then Chief Executive of JWT UK & Ireland.He was the founding Chief Executive Officer of Ofcom and both Chief of Strategy and Minister for Telecommunications and Media in the Government of the former Prime Minister, The Right Hon. Gordon Brown.Stephen is a Non-Executive Director of Vodafone PLC. He also represents Informa on the Boards of Informa TechTarget, BolognaFiere and PA Media Group Limited.Stephen was made a Life Peer in 2008.