successor nationality office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name alma_mater
sharon white british chief executive of ofcom 29 august 1965 october 2006 ed richards -lrb- chief executive -rrb-
 december 2014 ed richards london school of economics
ed richards -lrb- chief executive -rrb-

edward charles richards -lrb- born 29 august 1965 -rrb- was the chief executive of ofcom , the independent regulator for the communications industry in the united kingdom .
his salary was # 381,000 a year .
he stepped down in december 2014 .
richards attended the portsmouth grammar school where he overlapped with mel stride who is now a conservative mp for central devon .
he graduated from the london school of economics with an economics degree .
richards was previously a senior policy advisor to prime minister tony blair and before that controller of corporate strategy at the bbc .
he has also worked in consulting at london economics ltd , and as an advisor to gordon brown .
