David Hendon is Director Communications & Information Industries at the DTI, where he is responsible for the communications, IT, electronics and media business sectors. From 1998 to 2002, David was chief executive of the Radiocommunications Agency where he took a particular interest in amateur radio, overseeing the introduction of Internet linking and the Foundation Licence scheme.

Earlier in his career David held posts concerned with radio communications in the MoD, the Home Office and the DTI. From January 2004 he co-chairs the Cabinet Office Official Committee on Spectrum Strategy which is the Government's top committee dealing with radio spectrum matters - a task that also fell to him when he was at RA, but which reverts now to the DTI with RA's move into Ofcom. David still holds an amateur licence, G8DPQ, and is a Member of the RSGB, although he isn't active at the moment. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineer and a member of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, the BNSC Space Strategy Council and the IEE Communications Sector Panel.

David is married with a son and two daughters.

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