Dermot Gleeson (born 5 September 1949) is a current BBC Governor and will join the board of the new BBC Trust. September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Board of Governors of the BBC is a group of twelve people who together regulate the BBC and represent the interests of the public, in particular those of viewers and listeners. ... The BBC Trust is the new body which will oversee the BBC. Along with an Executive Board, the Trust will take over the role of the current Board of Governors and be in place by the end of 2006. ...

Also chief executive of MJ Gleeson Group plc, he graduated from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and served in Sir Christopher Tugendhat's cabinet in the European Commission from 1977 to 1979. Full name Fitzwilliam College Motto Ex antiquis et novissimis optima The best of old and new Named after Fitzwilliam Museum, named after Richard Fitzwilliam, named after Fitzwilliam Street, original location Previous names Fitzwilliam Hall [Non collegiate] (1869), Fitzwilliam House [Non collegiate] (1924) Established 1966 Sister College(s) St Edmund Hall... Baron Tugendhat (born 1937, formerly Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, is a British Conservative politician, former member of the European Commission, a businessman and company director and chairman, and journalist and author. ... The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ...

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