About Charles Gurassa
Born 1956. Charles Gurassa is a businessperson.
Charles Mark Gurassa (born 15 February 1956) is a British businessman and chair of the Guardian Media Group. He is a former chairman of the television station, Channel 4, and succeeded Lord Burns in January 2016.
Gurassa graduated from the University of York with a bachelor's degree in economics and earned an MBA from the International Management Centre in Buckingham. until November 2019 when he stepped down as part of an acquisition. He was an independent non-executive director of easyJet from 2011-2020.
In July 2020, Oxfam announced that they had elected him to succeed Caroline Thomson as its chair in October 2020.
Gurassa has previously chaired the boards of Virgin Mobile and Lovefilm and was a board member of the National Trust and Whitbread. As of 2022, he is on the board of British Airways and is chairman of the Migration Museum in London and the tour operator Great Rail Journeys.
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Chairman of Channel 4 Television Corporation
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Charles Gurassa was born in 1956.
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