The A-List: 2008

Job

Managing director of global content

Company

ITV

Work Telephone

+44 (0)84 4881 3000.

Address

The Television Centre, Upper Ground, London, SE1 9LT

Fantasy business partner

Roman Abramovich.

How do you off-set your carbon footprint?

With difficulty.

Greatest influence

Partner.

Clubs

Soho House, The Hospital, 30 Club, Wacl.

Favourite gadget

BlackBerry.

Desert island objects

MacBook Pro, chocolate.

Most-admired politician

Tessa Jowell, for her resilience and humanity.

Favourite media

The Sun, The New Yorker, Coronation Street, Radio 4, GuardianUnlimited.

Biggest risk taken

Becoming a parent in my forties.

Perfect day

Awake at midday, Coronation Street, chocolate and my daughter.

Who should play you in the film of your life?

Sigourney Weaver (in my dreams).

Career highlights

4, five, and, hopefully, ITV.

Fictional hero

Lucille van Pelt (read Charlie Brown).

Hidden talent

All-day breakfasts.

Best job outside advertising

Picking avocados one sultry summer in Israel.

Lowdown

After a disastrous, eight-day stint at the TV production start-up Iostar, Airey regained her mantle as one of mainstream TV's brightest programming stars. As director of global content at ITV, the spikey and spunky Airey will be one of Michael Grade's key weapons in ITV's hoped-for fightback in 2008.

Most expensive purchase

Fifteenth century map of England.

Why are you good at what you do?

I employ giants.