Peter Bazalgette is a British media expert who has helped to create the independent TV production sector in the UK. He went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV company Endemol.

Peter Bazalgette is a British media expert who has helped to create the independent TV production sector in the UK. He went on to be the leading creative figure in the global TV company Endemol.

Peter is one of the leading figures in international TV production and media convergence. He helped to establish the independent TV production industry in the UK and became global head of programme creation for Endemol.

He was responsible for hits like Big Brother and Deal or No Deal, as well as formats of his own such as Ready Steady Cook and Changing Rooms. During his time on the global board Endemol grew strongly and in 2005 it was launched on the Dutch stock exchange. Over the next eighteen months it trebled in value and was sold in 2007 for £3.2 billion, where Bazalgette was paid £4.6m in salary.

He is currently an advisor to Endemol and a director of several digital companies including YouGov and MyVideoRights. He is also a former board member of Channel 4.

Peter now sits on the board of the English National Opera and is Deputy Chairman of the National Film and Television School. He broadcasts, writes regularly for the newspapers and is the author of several books including The Food Revolution and Billion Dollar Game.

Peter speaks regularly on all aspects of media, the digital revolution and managing creativity. As an aside, he also speaks with humour about 'The Great Stink' the story of how his great great grandfather (Sir Joseph Bazalgette) cleansed Victorian London with his sewage system. Peter was President of the Cambridge Union in the 1970's, worked as a BBC documentary reporter in the 1980's and delivered the Mac Taggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International TV festival in 1998.