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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Cohen

Danny Cohen (born 1974)[1] is the current Controller of BBC One,[2] the BBC's flagship television channel in the United Kingdom.[3] He is the youngest person to be appointed as Controller of the channel.
Contents

    1 Education
    2 Career
    3 Personal life
    4 References

Education

Cohen attended a Jewish primary school in north London, followed by the City of London School, an independent school for boys in the City of London.[4] Cohen attended university at Lady Margaret Hall college, University of Oxford, where he was awarded a BA Honours Double First in English Literature.[4]
Career

Cohen's television commissions have included Call the Midwife, The Voice UK, The Inbetweeners, Skins, Supernanny, Being Human, Blood Sweat and Takeaways, Him & Her, Russell Howard's Good News and Women, Weddings, War and Me.

Between May 2007 and October 2010, he was the Controller of BBC Three.

During his tenureship of BBC Three, the channel increased its share of 16-34 year old viewers by 58% and won Digital Channel of the Year at the Edinburgh International TV Festival in two out of three years – 2008 and 2010.[5]

His BBC Three commissions included the BAFTA nominated Blood, Sweat and T-shirts and follow-up series Blood, Sweat and Takeaways, The Undercover Princes, Britain's Missing Top Model, The World's Strictest Parents, The Adult Season, Russell Howard's Good News, Young Voter's Question Time, Stacey Dooley Investigates, Lip Service, Lee Nelson's Well Good Show , Being Human and Mongrels

Alongside these commissions, he also acquired Summer Heights High from Australia and built a strong following for U.S. animation Family Guy. He also revamped the hourly bulletins 60 Seconds adding a World News update, and hired Tasmin Lucia Khan as the face of news.[6][7]

In February 2008, The Times newspaper described Cohen as "the boy wonder of British television".[8]

In January 2009, the Royal Television Society's magazine Television wrote an article about Cohen which posed the question of whether "the 34 year-old wunderkind" would be Director General of the BBC by his early forties.[9]

As Controller of BBC One, Cohen's commissions have included Call the Midwife, which launched as the highest rating BBC drama series for over a decade,The Voice UK, and a new BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.

Prior to this, Cohen worked at Channel 4 in the UK in various roles including Head of Documentaries, Head of Factual Entertainment and Head of E4. His television commissions at Channel 4 included Skins, The Inbetweeners, Supernanny, Cutting Edge, The Great British UFO Hoax, The Games,and the BAFTA award-winning Fonejacker.[10]
Personal life

Cohen is married to the economist and author Noreena Hertz.

check his mrs out................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreena_Hertz

Professor Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967, London) is an English economist, author and campaigner.

In her 2002 book The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and The Death of Democracy, Hertz warned that unregulated markets, corporate greed, and over-powerful financial institutions would have serious global consequences that would impact most heavily on the ordinary citizen. Following the financial meltdown and recession of 2008-09, many commentators have described Hertz as insightful.[citation needed]

Hertz's books have been published worldwide. Since the publication of The Silent Takeover in 2002, she has regularly appeared on television and radio programmes to discuss economics, politics, and globalisation.
Contents

    1 Life and career
    2 Personal life
    3 Books
    4 Politics
    5 Campaigns
    6 External links
    7 Footnotes

Life and career

Noreena Hertz is a great-granddaughter of British Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz, and was born and brought up in London, England. When she was 20 years old, her mother, the fashion designer and feminist activist Leah Hertz, died of cancer.

Hertz attended North London Collegiate School, Westminster School, and University College London, UK, where she earned her Bachelor's degree.[1] She then attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. where she earned her MBA, before gaining a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge (King's). At the invitation of a professor at Wharton,[citation needed] she then went to Russia to work for the World Bank and played a role in setting up the Russian stock exchange and in advising the Russian government on its privatisation programmes. Her disenchanted and highly critical Cambridge doctoral thesis, "Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform", dispelling the myth of Russia's successful transition to a market economy and questioning the bank's requirements, was published in 1996.

In 2000, the left-leaning UK newspaper The Observer described Hertz as 'one of the world's leading young thinkers'; in 2001 Management Today named her amongst the top 35 women under 35,[2][3] and Vogue magazine named her 'one of the world's most inspiring women'.

In 2002 The Silent Takeover was published. Hertz then turned her attention to the Middle East Peace Process, where she headed a 40-member research team of Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians and Egyptians. She was selected as a 'Young Global Leader of Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum in 2004.

In 2005, Hertz was appointed a Fellow of the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. That year IOU: The Debt Threat was published. A popular treatise on the dangers of irrational lending, it was publicly endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof and Bono. During 2005, Hertz also served a 6 month professorship at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

As of 2006, Hertz is a fellow and associate director of the Centre for International Business & Management (CIBAM),[4] at Cambridge's Judge Business School.

In 2006, Hertz played a leading role in the development of (RED) - an innovative commercial model to raise money for AIDS victims in Africa. The singer Bono was also closely involved in the project and has described Hertz's writings as the inspiration for the (RED) project. That year she was appointed Fellow of the Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics.

In 2008, Hertz took up a Visiting Professorship at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, the business school of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Harpers Bazaar chose her as "one of the most powerful women in Britain" and described her as "one of the greatest communicators of our generation."

In 2009, Hertz was appointed Professor of Globalisation, Sustainability and Finance at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University[5] and the Duisenberg School of Finance.[6]
Personal life

Hertz is married to Danny Cohen, the controller of BBC One.
Books

Hertz has published several studies on globalization and Russia. She has written several popular books based on her experience at the World Bank, including:

    1997: Russian Business Relationships in the Wake of Reform (ISBN 0-333-71083-5)
    2002: The Silent Takeover : Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy (ISBN 0-7432-3478-2)
    2005: The Debt Threat : How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World (ISBN 0-06-056052-5)
    2005: IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It (ISBN 0-00-717899-9)

Politics

Hertz is considered to be on the centre-left, rather than the further left position of Naomi Klein, to whom she is sometimes compared.[citation needed]
Campaigns

In April 2007 Hertz launched a campaign in Britain to alleviate the problems of low pay in nursing. She asked several hundred top-flight footballers and managers to contribute a day's pay to a hardship fund for nurses struggling in their first few years, and above all to draw public attention to the issue.[7]

The Royal College of Nursing is collecting and administering the fund, and as of October 2007 began the distribution process.

......grandad hertz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Hertz

Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, CH (September 25, 1872 - January 14, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian-born Rabbi and Bible scholar. He is most notable for holding the position of Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom from 1913 until his death in 1946, in a period encompassing both world wars and The Holocaust.

Early life

Hertz was born in Rebrín, east Slovakia, Slovak Republic, previously Rebrény, Kingdom of Hungary (presently part of the village of Zemplínska Široká, Slovak Republic), and emigrated to New York City in 1884. He was educated at New York City College (BA), Columbia University (PhD) and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rabbi, 1894, the Seminary's first graduate). His first Ministerial post was at Syracuse, New York.

In 1898, he moved to (Transvaal), South Africa, to the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg. He stayed there until 1911, despite attempts by President Paul Kruger in 1899 to expel him for his pro-British sympathies and for advocating the removal of religious disabilities of Jews and Catholics in South Africa. He was Professor of Philosophy at Transvaal University College (later known as the University of the Witwatersrand), 1906-8.

In 1911, he returned to New York to the Orach Chayim Congregation.

Chief Rabbi

In 1913, Rabbi Hertz was appointed Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire; his rival candidates had included Rabbi Moses Hyamson, Rabbi Lewis Daly, and Rabbi Bernard Drachman. Rabbi Hertz held the post until his death. His period in office was marked by many arguments with a wide variety of people, mainly within the Jewish community; the Dictionary of National Biography describes him as a "combative Conservative". It was said that he was in favour of resolving disagreements by calm discussion - when all other methods had failed[citation needed].

Despite his title, he was not universally recognised as the final rabbinical authority, even in Britain. While he was Chief Rabbi of the group of Synagogues known as the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, led by the United Synagogue, some new immigrants who had arrived since the 1880s regarded it as not orthodox enough. Hertz tried both persuasion and such force as he could muster to influence them; he added to his credibility among these immigrants by persuading Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky to become head of the London Beth Din.

Hertz antagonised others by his strong support for Zionism in the 1920s and 1930s, when many prominent Jews were against it, fearing that it would lead to accusations against the Jewish community of divided loyalty. Hertz was strongly opposed to Reform and Liberal Judaism, though he did not allow this to create personal animosities, and had no objection in principle to attending the funerals of Reform Jews.

However, despite all this, his eloquent oratory, lucid writing, erudition and sincerity earned him the respect of the majority of British Jews and many outside the Jewish community[citation needed]. His commentary on the Torah is still to be found in most Orthodox synagogues and Jewish homes in Great Britain.

He was ex officio President of Jews' College, and Acting Principal, 1939-45. He was President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, 1922-3, and of the Conference of Anglo-Jewish Preachers. He was on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Chairman of the Governing Body of its Institute of Jewish Studies. He was Vice-President of a wide variety of Jewish and non-Jewish bodies, including the Anglo-Jewish Association, the London Hospital, the League of Nations Union, the National Council of Public Morals and King George's Fund for Sailors. In 1942, with the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, Chief Rabbi Hertz founded the Council of Christians and Jews to combat anti-Jewish bigotry.

His daughter Judith married Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld.

His great granddaughter is the writer Noreena Hertz.
Calendar reform

In the 1920s, Hertz successfully organised international opposition to a proposed calendar reform[1]. The League of Nations was considering a calendar amendment, The World Calendar, such that a given date would fall on the same day of the week every year. This requires that one day every year (two in leap years) is not any day of the week but a "world day". Thus, once or twice a year there would be eight days rather than seven between consecutive Saturdays. Thus the Jewish Sabbath, which must occur every seventh day, would be on a different weekday each year. The same applies to the Christian Sabbath. Hertz realised that this would cause problems for Jews and Christians alike in observing their Sabbaths, and mobilised worldwide religious opposition to defeat the proposal.
Publications

Hertz edited notable commentaries on the Torah (1929-36, one volume edition 1937) and the Jewish Prayer Book or Siddur (1946). He also contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia and the Encyclopædia Britannica.

    Affirmations of Judaism, a collection of his sermons, was well regarded. He published a further three volumes of Sermons, Addresses, and Studies.
    A Book of Jewish Thoughts (1917), a selection of Jewish wisdom through the millennia, was immensely popular and ran to 25 editions.
    The Battle for the Sabbath at Geneva, an account of his work opposing calendar reform.

Honours

He was made a Companion of Honour in 1943[2]. He was also Commander of the Order of Léopold II of Belgium[3] and had a Columbia University medal.