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Andy Duncan (born 20 October 1977 in Hexham, Northumberland) is an English footballer who plays as a central defender. He stands at 180cm (5'11").
He started his football career at Manchester United, but made no appearances and was loaned to Cambridge United on the 1998-01-09. The loan was turned into a permanent move in April 1998 for a fee of £20,000.
By the end of the 2006/07 season, Duncan had made 328 appearances for United, scoring 11 times. In May 2007 he was released on a free transfer by the club. In July 2007 he was appointed to a part-time role working on the PR/Commercial side of the club and will be responsible for promoting the club in an ambassadorial capacity. He has also signed as a player for Chelmsford City in the Isthmian League .
Andy Duncan was a founding member of the Chicago band OK Go, playing lead guitar and keyboards. He appears on their first two albums, the eponymous OK Go and its follow up, self titled album "Ok Go." Duncan chose to leave the band shortly after Oh No's completion over creative differences and major label pressures. Since leaving the group he has started a successful music production company for multimedia called Pedestrian Audio and been involved with a new band, Parks & Gardens with Joshua R. Davison and Nathan T. Tucker (formerly of the band String Theory). He also contributed to playing bass on the Frodus album Fireflies released in 1995.
He studied classical guitar at Northwestern University.
Andy Duncan's father, Dr. Jim Duncan, is a Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of Maryland. He has one younger sister named Emma.
Andy Duncan (21 September, 1964) is an award-winning American science fiction and fantasy writer whose work frequently deals with Southern themes. He was born in Batesburg, South Carolina in 1964. He graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in journalism and worked for seven years at the Greensboro News & Record.
He earned a M.A. in creative writing (fiction) from North Carolina State University and a M.F.A in fiction writing from the University of Alabama. Duncan also attended Clarion West in 1994, and returned to teach there in 2005. He currently works as a senior editor at Overdrive, a magazine for truck drivers.
His fiction has appeared in a number of venues, including Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, and SciFiction. He has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award and two World Fantasy Awards, and has been nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula Award.
Duncan currently lives with his wife Sydney in Frostburg, Maryland.
Andy Duncan (born July 31 1962) is the chief executive of Channel 4 television in the United Kingdom. He was previously Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences at the BBC.
Duncan graduated with a BSc in Management Sciences from UMIST in Manchester.
In 1984 Duncan joined Unilever and worked his way up through various divisions of the company. In 1995 he was appointed Van Den Bergh Foods Business Unit Chairman and Marketing Controller for spreads and margarines. He was responsible for the sponsorship of the London Marathon by one of his brands, Flora. He also built the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter brand.
In 1997 he became Van Den Bergh Foods Marketing Director, and between January and December 1999 he was chairman of the Tea Council. In December 1999 he became European Category Director for Unilever's Foods and Beverages division, responsible for over 10% of the corporation's global profits.
In 2001 Duncan joined the BBC as Director of Marketing and Communications. In July 2003 his title changed to Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences. In this role he became a member of the BBC's executive committee.
While at the BBC he was nicknamed "The Implementer" and was known for his informal style. He supervised the expansion of the BBC's digital output and became chairman of Freeview, which took over the UK's digital terrestrial television service after the financial collapse of ITV Digital. To the surprise of many, Freeview became a fast-growing brand and in twenty months reached 4 million homes. Much of the success of Freeview is credited to Duncan.
On July 1, 2004 Duncan was appointed as chief executive of Channel 4 - the first person in that role not to have a background in television programming. He took up the position on July 19, 2004.
Andy Duncan presided over the Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy, which provoked a record number of 45,000 complaints to Ofcom, the UK television watchdog.
Ofcom, found that Channel 4 made "serious editorial misjudgements" in its handling of the incidents involving Indian actress Shilpa Shetty .
Labour MP Keith Vaz, who led protests in Parliament over the celebrity big brother racism row issue, has called for Andy Duncan to resign.





