Nicholas Kroll
Nicholas James Kroll is a British civil servant who served as director of the BBC Trust from 2007 to 2014. He was the principal adviser to the BBC Trust and head of the BBC Trust Unit, the BBC department that supports and advises the trust.
Education
Kroll was educated at St Paul's School, London and the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.Career
Kroll was originally appointed director of governance at the BBC in October 2004. His appointment followed a shake up of the governance arrangements at the BBC implemented by the then BBC chairman, Michael Grade. Kroll was appointed to lead the Governance Unit, a small team of staff reporting to and supporting the Board of Governors of the BBC.Upon the formation of the BBC Trust as the governing body of the corporation, Kroll was appointed Director. He is the head of the Trust Unit, a group of nearly 70 BBC staff that report directly to the BBC Trust, outside of the BBC management chain. In 2010/11 the cost of the Trust Unit was £10.8 million.
Prior to working at the BBC, Kroll was a career civil servant; he joined the civil service in 1977.
From 2002 to 2004 he was chief operating officer and deputy to the permanent secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, responsible for developing and delivering the department's change management programme and setting new strategic priorities within the DCMS. Previous posts at the DCMS include corporate services director and a period as acting permanent secretary during 2001. He was also director of Creative Industries, Media and Broadcasting Group, head of Broadcasting Policy Division, and head of the Arts Division.
Kroll also worked at HM Treasury, where he was head of the European Community Budget Division and the head of Banking Policy Branch. Previously, he worked at the Department of Transport and the Department of Environment and Transport.