predecessor successor birth_place party nationality office primeminister birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name otherparty alma_mater
peter hain tessa jowell stephen timms tom pendry yvette herbert cooper andrew burnham mike o'brien jonathan reynolds terence london , united kingdom none british secretary state for culture , media and sport minister of state of for pensions member of parliament for stalybridge and hyde islington state borough councillor for canonbury east ward for work and pensions secretary of gordon brown gordon brown tony blair 2 march 1970 24 8 june 2001 5 may 1994 january 2008 28 june 2007 5 may 2006 james purnell ministerial portrait.jpg james purnell
 4 12 april 2010 12 october 1995 june 2009 24 january 2008 28 june 2007 james purnell labour -lrb- until 2013 -rrb- balliol college , oxford
james purnell

james mark dakin purnell -lrb- born 2 march 1970 -rrb- is the director of strategy and digital at the bbc being appointed to the post in february 2013 .
he was a british labour party politician , as the member of parliament for stalybridge and hyde -lrb- mp -rrb- from 2001 to 2010 general elections , previously serving as secretary of state for work and pensions and secretary of state for culture , media and sport from 2007 to 2009 , resigning from the government on 4 june 2009 , criticising the leadership of gordon brown .
purnell became the director of the open left project for demos in 2009 , and was the chair of the institute for public policy research until 2010 and a senior advisor in the public sector practice of the boston consulting group .
he is also a film producer , the senior producer at rare day , who produced the film `` one mile away '' .
