Kim Williams Appointed Chairman Thomson Reuters FSC
NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2017 -- The Thomson Reuters Founders
Share Company today announced that Kim
Williams will become the Board's permanent Chairman
effective January 1, 2018. He has
been a Founders Share Company board member since 2016 and currently
serves as the interim Chairman.
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Williams has held a number of executive leadership positions in
the arts, entertainment and media industries in Australia and internationally, including chief
executive at FOXTEL, News Corp Australia, Fox Studios Australia,
the Australian Film Commission, Southern Star Entertainment and
Musica Viva Australia, as well as a senior executive at the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation. At FOXTEL, he pioneered many
of the major digital broadcast innovations in Australia and received the 2012 Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Australian Subscription Television
Association (ASTRA) for his diverse contributions. He is a former
Chair of the Sydney Opera House
Trust, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Australian Film Finance
Corporation amongst a large roster of Australian commercial and
cultural enterprises. He serves on a number of Australian boards
including as a Commissioner of the Australian Football League since
2014.
He was appointed as a member in the Order of Australia in June
2006 for his services to the arts and public policy
formulation in the film and television industries and had a
Doctorate of Letters (Honoris Causa) conferred by Macquarie
University in 2009 for his services to creative and cultural
endeavour in Australia and
internationally.
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