Stephen. A. Carter, CBE (Lord Carter)
Group CEO of Informa PLC; Non-Executive Director of Vodafone PLC; former founding CEO of Ofcom
Stephen. A. Carter is the Chief Executive of Informa PLC, an international FTSE 100 B2B Live Events, Digital Services and Academic Markets information group.
He has significant executive and non-executive experience across a range of different companies and industries, with a deep knowledge of the technology and information industries.
He joined Informa in 2010 as a Non-Executive Director before becoming Group CEO in 2013. Under his leadership, Informa has expanded Internationally, now serving specialist markets across the world.
Informa has grown significantly in reach and scale, geographically (particularly in North America, China, Asia and the Middle East) and in the deployment of technology and digital services. Informa now owns and operates a portfolio of B2B Brands, serving a range of industries including Aviation, Healthcare, Private Capital, Technology ,Commercial Real Estate , Bioscience, Luxury and a number of others.
In the private sector he is a career senior executive, having held roles in a range of media and technology businesses, including President International (EVP) of Alcatel-Lucent, COO of ntl, now Virgin Media , and CEO of JWT UK and Ireland (WPP PLC).
Stephen also served as the founding CEO of Ofcom, the UK’s competition regulator, as Chief of Strategy to the UK Prime Minister, the Right Hon. Gordon Brown, and was the first Minister for Telecommunications and Media, where he wrote and published The Digital Britain Report.
He was made a Life Peer in 2008.
Stephen has extensive non-executive experience including serving on the Boards of Travis Perkins PLC, The Royal Mail PLC, United Ultilies PLC and is a serving Non-Executive Director of Vodafone PLC.
He also serves as Informa’s representative on the Boards of The PA Media Group Limited, Bologna Fiere, and is Chair of Informa’s joint ventures in The UAE, Monaco and The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia He is also a Director on the Board of Informa TechTarget, Informa’s US-listed digital services company.
