Independent Reviewer - Sir Hayden Phillips biography

Sir Hayden Phillips succeeded Sir John Caines as the Independent Reviewer of ASA Adjudications on 1 January 2010.

Sir Hayden is currently a Director of Westhouse Holdings plc, of Hanson Family Holdings, of the Energy Savings Trust and is an Adviser to Englefield Capital. He is Chairman of the Digital Funding Partnership. From 2004 to 2010 he was Chairman of the National Theatre. He and his wife have a farm in Wiltshire where he is a Deputy Lieutenant, a Lay Canon of Salisbury Cathedral and Chairman of Marlborough College.

Sir Hayden’s previous career was in the Civil Service.  He served in senior positions in the Home Office, the European Commission, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury before heading two Departments as Permanent Secretary – the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 1992 to 1998, and the Lord Chancellor’s Department (now the Ministry of Justice) from 1998 to 2004. He has published two reports – on the Reform of the Honours System in 2004, and on the Reform of the Funding of Political Parties in 2007.