[3] After graduating, Damazer took up a Harkness Fellowship to study at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

[4] Damazer returned to England to train at ITN in 1980, with fellow trainees Edward Stourton and Michael Crick.

[6] On 12 April 2010, the BBC announced that Damazer was standing down as Controller of Radio 4 and leaving the Corporation to become Master of St Peter's College, Oxford.

[7][8] In June 2020 he was announced as chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, succeeding Baroness Helena Kennedy.

[9][10] Damazer served on the boards of trustees of the Institute of Contemporary British History and the Carl Rosa Opera,[2] and Mental Health Media.