Joan Ingram (broadcaster)

Joan Ingram, OBE is a Scottish broadcaster, journalist and media company director.

Ingram studied at the University of Dundee and Aberdeen University where she obtained an MA Honours degree in politics & jurisprudence in 1981 and an MBA in 1996.

She began her broadcasting career in 1982 at Radio Tay. Within a year, Ingram joined Grampian Television (now STV North) as a reporter & presenter for the nightly news programme North Tonight and various documentaries.[1] Whilst at Grampian, Ingram also presented political and current affairs programming including Crossfire and Scottish Question Time. Ingram left the station in 1996 and continued to freelance as a television broadcaster until 1999, presenting STV's coverage of the new Scottish parliament.

In 1993, she set up her own Aberdeen-based change management, communications and media company, The Fifth Business. The company has since expanded and now also operates from offices in Houston, London and The Hague. She was a runner-up in the Association of Scottish Businesswomen’s Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000 and served on the board of the Aberdeen Sports Village for six years from 2009. From 2012 to 2018, Ingram served two terms on the independent NHS Pay Review Body, an eight-person committee that advises UK governments on pay-related issues.

Ingram was awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List of 2018[2] for her services in the field of healthcare.