Alan Clements
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Alan is Managing Director of Two Rivers Media, a new independent production company set up in January 2019 with backing from the Channel 4 Growth Fund, investment house Noble Grossart and Kew Media. He has recruited a major team of talents in scripted, entertainment, factual entertainment and documentaries and in the first two years the company’s credits have included Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland and The Trial of Alex Salmond (BBC2), The Small Hand (Channel 5), Escape To The Chateau and Escape To The Chateau- Make Do & Mend (Channel 4) and theatrical documentary Killing Escobar.
Prior to Two Rivers, Alan spent ten years as Director of Content at STV where he turned a company which mainly produced drama for ITV into a successful multi-genre company delivering to all the major broadcasters. Commissions included multiple series of Catchphrase (ITV) and Antiques Road Trip (BBC) as well as drama The Victim.
Previously Creative Director of IWC Media Ltd, he negotiated a merger with Ideal World to form Scotland’s largest independent TV company. Credits include Dunblane (BBC), The Root Of All Evil? (C4), Mississippi Burning (C4) and Tales From … (BBC).
From 1990, Alan was the founder and Managing Director of Wark Clements & Co Ltd. He grew the company from start up to £10m+ turnover. He produced or Executive Produced many programmes including Football, Faith & Flutes (C4), The Russian Revolution in Colour (C5), The First World War (C4), Words with Wark (BBC Scotland), Greatest Heroes in History (C5) and Great Battles (Discovery).
Previous to Wark, Clements, Alan worked as freelance journalist, as a Business Development Officer at the University of Glasgow and as a political researcher and journalist at BBC Scotland.
Between 1985 and 1987 he taught history and coached football at both Westlake School for Girls, Los Angeles and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
Alan was a Thouron Scholar at University of Pennsylvania receiving a Joint Masters in History and International Relations, and before that took a Double First in Modern History & Politics at the University of Glasgow, winning the Greta C. Tweedale Memorial Prize in History.
He has written two books, the political history Restless Nation (Mainstream, 1996) and novel Rogue Nation (Mainstream June 2009).
Alan was a Director of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow from 2003 to 2008, a Director of the Edinburgh International Television Festival from 2010 to 2020, a former member of the Scottish Screen Leadership Group and the Glasgow University Politics Graduate Consultative Committee.
He was appointed an Honorary Professor by the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences at Glasgow University in 2008 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh Napier University in 2014 for services to Journalism and Television.
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