Ken MacQuarrie is the Director of BBC Nations and Regions and a member of the BBC Board, the executive board that governs the BBC.Born on the Island of Mull in the Inner Hebrides in Scotland, he attended school in Oban, followed by Edinburgh University and Moray House School of Education. He joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1975.He became a radio producer for BBC Highland then transferred as a producer in Television in 1979. He was instrumental in introducing daily Gaelic children's programmes on BBC Scotland and developed the investigative current affairs programmes Prosbaig, Eòrpa and the children's programme Dè a-nis?. Wikipedia