Lindsey Oliver
International Media Consultant
Lindsey was the International Commercial Director at Bloomberg Television for five years. An experienced media professional Lindsey is also a trained lawyer and has worked for large media organizations in both capacities. General Counsel for CNBC Europe for five years, Lindsey moved across to head up their distribution team. Following her tenure at CNBC Lindsey became Commercial Director at Al Jazeera English, based in Doha, where she was part of the team that launched the
English language version of one of the world’s most controversial television brands.
After successfully rolling out the Al Jazeera English channel Lindsey moved to the Internet arena with Jalipo, an online content provider, before taking up the position of Commercial Director at Bloomberg Television. In this role Lindsey was responsible for distribution across Europe, Middle East and Africa and led the Channel’s international localization initiative which, under her guidance saw the completion of several new localization deals including BloombergHT in Turkey, Al Arab in the Middle East, RBC in Russia, Bank TV in Ukraine, Bulgaria on Air in Bulgaria and Bloomberg Africa based in Nigeria.
Lindsey is now working as an International Media Consultant independently.