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The controller of Radio 4 and Radio 7, Mark Damazer, is to leave the BBC to become head of St Peter's College, at Oxford University.He said he will have had the post for six years and there was no other big broadcasting job that appealed to him.
Mr Damazer said it was untrue his decision had anything to do with his pension arrangements, as stated in a national newspaper.
He joined the BBC World Service in 1981 as a current affairs producer.
Mr Damazer is due to take up his new post in October.
He was appointed Controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 7 in October 2004, having been Deputy Director of BBC News since April 2001.
Radio 4 was named UK Station of the Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2008.
Mr Damazer studied at Cambridge where he attained a double-starred first in History. He was also awarded the Harkness Fellowship at Harvard University.This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.