James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane

James Stuart Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane CBE ( born May 17, 1936) is a Scottish businessman and life peer.

The son of James Gordon and Elsie Riach studied at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1958. He worked from 1965 to 1973 as a political editor for STV from 1973 to 1996 as managing director for Radio Clyde.

From 1991 to 1996 he was CEO of Scottish Radio Holdings and its board of 1996 and 2005. During the following years he was with Melody Radio, Clyde Port Holdings and the Scottish Tourist Board. From 1990 he was a member of the Scottish Advisory Board of British Petroleum and was from 1996 director of Johnston Press and chairman of AIM Trust. In 2003, he was on the board of Radio Audience Research.

Gordon was from 1981 to 1990 a member of the Scottish Development Agency and 1983-1989 Board of the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. He was a member from 1984 to 1997 the Court of the University of Glasgowan and 1986, the Committee of Enquiry into Teachers' Pay and Conditions. In Weiterern he worked for the Advisory Group on Listed Events, the Independent Review Panel on Funding of the BBC and the British Tourist Authority.

In the parliamentary elections in 1964 he was a candidate in the constituency of East Renfrewshire for the Labour Party.

1984, the Order of the British Empire, he was awarded the Commander level ( CBE ) and the Sony Award for his special use of the broadcasting system. October 4, 1997, he was elevated as ' Baron Gordon of Strathblanezum Life Peer. In 1994 he became a Fellow of the Radio Academy, he received the Lord Provost 's Award for Public Service in Glasgow and an Honorary Doctorate of Glasgow Caledonian University. He was also a Doctor of the University ( DUniv ) of the University of Glasgow.

In 1971 he married Margaret Anne Stevenson. They have three children.