Rotha Johnston
{{short description|Northern Irish entrepreneur and public service director}}
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Dame Rotha Geraldine Diane Johnston, DBE (born August 1959) is a Northern Irish entrepreneur in commerce and property. Johnston is chair of Northern Ireland Screen,{{Cite web|url=https://www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk/about/board/|title = Board}} a non-executive director of Northern Ireland Electricity and an independent board member of the Department of Justice and Belfast Harbour Commissioners.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36503498|title=Jeffrey Donaldson given knighthood|date=2016-06-10|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-07-25|language=en-GB}}
Johnston, a native of West Belfast who attended St Dominic's Grammar School, is a non-executive Director of Allied Irish Bank and Deputy Chair of Invest Northern Ireland. She is a non-executive member of the Northern Ireland Office and Pro Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast.[http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/TheUniversity/AboutQueens/UniversityInformation/UniversityStructure/#rotha_johnston Queen's University Belfast] Corporate Structure
BBC
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On 1 November 2006 Johnston was appointed as one of the founding members of the BBC Trust,[https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/10_october/12/trustees.shtml "New BBC Trust to represent the public interest"], bbc.co.uk; accessed 8 September 2016. which along with a formal executive board replaced the former BBC Board of Governors as the governing body of the BBC.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/oct/17/television4|title = Introduced: The 12 BBC Trust members set to decide on job cuts| newspaper=The Guardian |date = 17 October 2007 | last1=Holmwood | first1=Leigh }} Her term expired on 31 October 2010. Until late 2012, Johnston served as BBC National Trustee for Northern Ireland and chaired the BBC Audience Council Northern Ireland, which advises the BBC Trust on the views of Northern Irish licence fee payers.
She was also the chair of the Trust's Finance and Compliance Committee. She was replaced by Aideen McGinley, a former Chief Executive of Ilex.
Honours
Johnston was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4569808.stm|title=Industrialist knighted in honours|author=BBC News|date=31 December 2005|accessdate=31 July 2008}} and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to the Northern Ireland economy and public service.{{London Gazette|issue=61608|supp=y|page=B8|date=11 June 2016}}
External links
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/about/who_we_are/trustees/rotha_johnston.shtml BBC Trust biography]
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/audiencecouncil/ Audience Council Northern Ireland]
- [http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/8865910/MRS-ROTHA-JOHNSTON Profile], checkcompany.co.uk