Andy Lloyd James began his television career in 1970, directing and producing documentary and arts programs at Australia's ABCTV. Moving through Executive Producing, he became head of the Documentary Features Department in the early eighties. In 1988 he became Head of Television at SBS-TV and in the mid nineties he conceived and inaugurated SBSIndependent, the broadcaster's commissioning wing for independent productions. In 1996 he was invited to become Head of Drama at the ABC and within a year had been appointed to the ABC Executive as Head of

National Networks with responsibility for ABCTV, the five national Radio networks and ABC OnLine. He left the ABC in 2000 and has subsequently divided his time betweenconsulting to a range of clients including State and Federal agencies…. developing a new channel for Foxtel, Australia's premier subscription TV platform….and, as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, where he has developed a major research project (with support across the industry) exploring the shape of Television in 2015. In 2000 he was awarded, in the Queens Birthday Honours, the Public Service Medal for Outstanding Public Service to National Public Broadcasting.