James Broom Millar

James Broom Millar (1909–1986) was a British Foreign Service personnel, a World War II veteran, and Media executive. He was the Director General of the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service from 1954 to 1957 and the Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation from 1957 to 1960. He was consequently the first Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

Early life and education Millar was born in 1909 at Baldernock, Stirling. He was the first child of four children, and his father was an architect. for his tertiary education, where he studied economics under the tutelage of John Maynard Keynes.

Career Following his studies at Cambridge, Millar joined the staff of George Morton and Company (his grandfather's business in Glasgow). He was sent to Berlin in Germany, and later Zagreb in Croatia. There, he was made vice consul at the beginning of the second world war. In Italy, Millar was responsible for training troops for parachute jumping and also improve relations with partisans. He stayed in Bari until 1945.

In 1946, Millar was employed by the British Broadcasting Corporation's Eastern European Service as a Programme Organiser, he later became an Assistant Head of the Service. The Colonial Office at the time was focused on improving broadcasting and a special post of Broadcasting Officer was created. When an opening came along for Director of the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service, he was seconded by the British Broadcasting Corporation to take up the position on 1 August 1954. Upon his secondment for the post, broadcasting had grown from under the wing of the Department of Information (which was then responsible for everything related to broadcasting in the Gold Coast) to become a department on its own. Millar then became the Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation from 1957 to 1960. He was succeeded by William Frank Kobina Coleman.

Death Millar died on 19 August 1986 in Bournmouth.