Michael Portillo has made a series of acclaimed television programmes including: Richard Wagner’s Ring; Portillo in Euroland; Elizabeth I; When Michael Portillo Became A Single Mum; Portillo Goes Wild in Spain and The Science of Killing. He is a regular presenter on the weekly political discussion programme This Week on BBC1. In 2008 he chaired the judges of the Man Booker Prize. Michael is a member of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia and was a Non-Executive Director of BAE Systems from 2002-6. He is also President of DebRA, the national charity working on behalf of people with the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa and was Chairman of the British-Spanish Tertulias (an annual high level conference) from 2004-8.

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