Lord Carter

Stephen Carter is the Group Chief Executive of Informa plc, a leading business intelligence, academic publishing, knowledge and events company.

He has held senior executive positions in a range of Media & Technology businesses. Prior to becoming the Group CEO of Informa in 2013, he was President & Managing Director EMEA at Alcatel Lucent Inc, Managing Director and COO of ntl (now Virgin Media) and CEO and Managing Director of JWT UK & Ireland. Stephen was the founding CEO of Ofcom, the UK’s Media & Communications Regulator. He also served as Chief of Strategy to Prime Minister, The Right Hon Gordon Brown, and was Minister for the Media & Telecommunications industry, where he wrote and published the Digital Britain Report.

Stephen has served on a number of company Boards, including as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Informa PLC, and is currently a Non-Executive Director of United Utilities PLC. He is also a Non-Executive board member at the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and Chairman of The Henley Music Festival.