Anthony is Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Magic Lantern which he has lead for over twelve years. He is a BAFTA and Peabody Award winning interactive media producer who has worked on projects such as Top Gear, Doctor Who, Teletubbies, Spooks, FourDocs, The Guardian and many others.

He works extensively in media policy and is currently a Member of the Content Board of Ofcom as well as having advised many government departments including DCMS and DCSF. Anthony has previously been Vice-Chair of PACT, Chair of the UK Digital Content Forum and a member of the Steering Board of the DCMS Creative Economy Programme.

He has a passionate interest in the arts and advises Arts Council England as their Digital Media Associate and sits as a member of the Board of the English National Opera. In 2008, he held the post of News International Visiting Professor of Broadcast Media at the University of Oxford and has recently taken up a three year position as Visiting Professor at the Media School of Bournemouth University. He speaks and writes widely on the future of media and had a regular new media column in the Guardian Newspaper from 2006-2008.

Married with two young children and lives in East Sussex. Anthony was awarded the OBE for services to media and creative industries in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008. More than anything else, except his family, he likes asking his favourite question: why not?