The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom, headquartered at Broadcasting House in London. The BBC is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402.

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John Shield joined the BBC as Director of Communications in November 2013. He is responsible for all of the BBC's communications activity.

Prior to this John was Director of Communications at the Department for Work and Pensions - John headed up all the communications activity for the department, including press, marketing and internal communications.

John has both private and public sector experience, having been a Director at one of Britain's largest transport businesses and the Head of Communications for news, current affairs and sport at the BBC. He was also Director of Communications at the Department for Communications and Local Government, and Head of News at the Department for Education and Skills. He has also worked at the Foreign Office and No. 10.

John Shield

Richard Sharp is the current Chairman at BBC. Richard has previously been a Project Manager at East Thames Group, a Partner at Urban Wine Company, and a Freelance Journalist.

Sharp began their career as a Freelance Journalist in 2006. Richard then went on to become a Partner at Urban Wine Company in 2010. While at Urban Wine Company, Sharp was responsible for setting up and delivering the company's community structures in London. Richard also oversaw the production of 2000 bottles of wine per year.

In January 2010, Sharp started working as a Project Manager at East Thames Group. Richard was responsible for developing Local Offers for the Group as part of the TSA required standards. This work entailed identification of local priorities with residents and translating them into locally tailored service standards. Sharp also worked closely with East Thames departments including Customer Service, Repairs, Housing, and Community.

In December 2011, Sharp left East Thames Group to become the Chairman at BBC.

Richard Sharp has a Master of Science in Public Service Management from the [University of Birmingham](/org/university-of-birmingham) and a degree in Social Policy from the University of Plymouth.

Richard Sharp

Rachel Currie is the Director of Employment at BBC. Rachel previously served as the HR Director at BBC Resources Ltd from January 1988 to January 2003.

Rachel Currie has a MA in Philosophy and English Literature from the [University of Glasgow](/org/university-of-glasgow).

Rachel Currie reports to Wendy Aslett, BBC Group HR Director.

Rachel Currie

David Jordan is the Director of Editorial Policy and Standards at BBC. David has held this position since November 2003. Prior to this, they were the Executive Producer of Political Programmes at BBC from April 1988 to November 2003. David was also the Editor of On the Record from July 2002 to November 2003. In addition, they were the Executive Producer of The Politics Show on BBC 1 from July 2002 to November 2003. David has also worked as a researcher and producer at London Weekend Television from October 1984 to April 1988. Prior to that, they worked as a Research Officer at GMB from January 1980 to September 1984.

David Jordan studied economics and politics at the University of Bristol before attending Latymer Upper School.

David Jordan reports to Tim Davie, Director General. They work with Deborah Turness - CEO, BBC News & Current Affairs, Leigh Tavaziva - Group Chief Operating Officer & Director, and Kerris Bright - Chief Customer Officer.

David Jordan

Paul Dempsey is the current President Global Distribution at BBC. Prior to that, they were the Director at Frontline Ltd (EMAP PLC) from 1995-1998, and before that they worked in sales at Mars Confectionery from 1987-1995.

Dempsey began their educational career by attending Xaverian College Manchester, where they completed their A levels. Paul then went on to study English Language and Literature at the [University of Liverpool](/org/university-of-liverpool), where they obtained their BA (hons). Dempsey continued their education by completing an Advanced Executive Programme in CEO Leadership at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.

and Daniel winner - Director / SVP Digital Partnerships reports to Paul Dempsey. Paul Dempsey reports to Tom Fussell, CEO, [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios).

Paul Dempsey

Deborah Turness became CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs in September 2022.

She was previously CEO of ITN, where she has led the organisation’s post-Covid strategy for growth in its three major business areas - newsrooms, long-form production and commercial/branded content.

Before this, Deborah became the first president of NBC News International, the global arm of American news network NBC News, in 2017, where she was responsible for overseeing its operations including editorial, production and commercial. She joined NBC News in 2013, becoming the first woman in US history to be President of a network news division, where she led a team of over 3000 journalists and technicians. She was responsible for all editorial content and commercial revenues for NBC News, including major brands TODAY, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, Meet the Press and Dateline. During Deborah’s tenure the 3 news programmes regained their position as top ratings performers in the competitive US news market.

Prior to joining NBC News, Deborah was editor of ITV News where she was their first female editor and the youngest ever editor of ITV News. During her tenure, the organisation won an Emmy and three consecutive BAFTA awards, as well as several RTS Programme of the Year awards. She also completed a mini-MBA course at Ashridge Business School while in the role. 

Deborah first joined ITN as a freelancer while on a post-graduate journalism course in France in her early twenties. Over the following years, she worked across the foreign, home and planning desks before joining the North of England bureau. Deborah was ITN’s Washington Bureau producer during the Clinton White House years and spent time in Bosnia during the Balkans War. In 1997, she played a key role in launching 5 News before moving to Channel 4 as editor of its breakfast programme, RI:SE.

Deborah Turness

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Nick Livesey

Leigh Tavaziva is the Group Chief Operating Officer at BBC.

Tavaziva is responsible for Design and Engineering, Finance, Legal, Commercial Rights and Business Affairs, Quality, Risk and Assurance, and Procurement.



Leigh Tavaziva

Rhodri Talfan Davies is the BBC Director of Nations and sits on the BBC’s Executive Committee.Rhodri started the role in January 2021,and leads all the work serving nations and local audiences across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland. He also has additional responsibilities as Director of BBC Wales.The BBC Nations division is one of the largest divisions in the BBC and produces a range of content across TV, Radio and Online for audiences in the nations, across all of the UK and globally.Rhodri has held the post of Director of BBC Wales since September 2011 and oversees all BBC programming produced for Wales in English and Welsh including BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and television output for S4C, BBC One Wales and BBC Two Wales. Programming includes BBC Wales Today, Keeping Faith, Hidden, Pobol y Cwm and Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience. He has led a transformation in nations and network programming as well as expanding the BBC’s portfolio of Welsh language services. In 2020, Rhodri also successfully completed BBC Wales' move to its new home at Central Square.Prior to becoming Director of BBC Wales, Rhodri led the BBC Wales’ strategy and marketing teams (2006-11) after a stint at Telewest (now Virgin Media) as Head of Television Marketing. From 2001-2004 he led the development of HomeChoice, one of the world's earliest on-demand television services and in 2004, his team won a UK Bafta for the service's pioneering interactive facilities.From 1999 to 2001, Rhodri was Head of Regional and Local Programmes for BBC West. He joined the BBC in 1993 as a news trainee, spending the next six years, as a news reporter and producer at a number of BBC centres including Newcastle, Manchester and London. Rhodri began his career as a sub-editor with the Western Mail newspaper in Cardiff.

Rhodri Talfan Davies

Tom is the CEO of [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios). He joined BBC Worldwide as Chief Financial Officer in May 2016 and became CFO of [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios) in November 2017. Prior to working at BBC Worldwide, he was CFO of Shine from 2013 to 2015, leading a global finance function across 11 markets and successfully completing the sale of Shine into a new joint venture, as part of its merger with Endemol.

Prior to this Tom spent three years at Harper Collins UK in a variety of commercial director roles, having previously been the Finance Director for Random House in the UK. Between 1997 and 2007 he held a variety of finance roles at the BBC, in BBC Production and Group Finance.

Tom is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Tom Fussell

June has enjoyed a 20‐year career, in which she has become one of the most recognisable faces of British television. June began her career at Kiss 100 and later became a presenter for MTV UK & Ireland. It was when she started on [Channel 4](/org/channel-4)’s T4 that she became a household name. June hosted 2005’s Make Poverty History event and presented at the UK leg of Live Earth in 2007. In 2008 she hosted Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday celebrations in front of 30,000 people in London’s Hyde Park. June has also interviewed and introduced some of the world’s biggest names including HRH Prince of Wales, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and George Clooney. 

She has worked extensively with HRH Prince Charles as an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, whilst campaigning for The One and Produce (RED). June was awarded an MBE in 2007 for her services to broadcasting and charity, making her one of the youngest people ever to receive an MBE. June was awarded an OBE in the 2020 New Years’ Honours List. 

June is the co‐founder of the WIE Network (Women: Inspiration & Enterprise). This acclaimed conference has featured leading speakers including Sarah Brown, Melinda Gates, Arianna Huffington, Donna Karan, Queen Rania, Nancy Pelosi and Iman. 

After living in America for eight years, June moved back to the UK in 2015, and is now a regular panellist on Sky News’ weekly current affairs discussion show, The Pledge. 

June is also an author of two award winning books; ‘Diversify: Six Degrees of Integration’ and The Power of Women. Diversify was launched across the USA and Canada earlier this year, where June toured over summer 2019. 

June is currently the Director of Creative Diversity at the BBC, having been appointed in the role in 2019. Acting as the broadcasting giants’ first ever Diversity Director, June will work to increase representation throughout the company and ensure that the BBC’s content reflects the public they serve

June Sarpong

Nicholas Serota is Chair of Arts Council England, a post he took up in February 2017. Previously he spent almost 30 years as Director of Tate. During his directorship, Tate opened Tate St Ives (1993) and Tate Modern (2000, expanded in 2016), redefining the Millbank building as Tate Britain (2000). Tate also broadened its field of interest and created the Plus Tate network of 35 institutions across the UK.Previously Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery and of the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Nicholas curated exhibitions at Tate Modern on Cy Twombly and Gerhard Richter, and co-curated Henri Matisse: the Cut Outs in 2014.Nicholas Serota has been a member of the Visual Arts Advisory Committee of the [British Council](/org/british-council), a Trustee of the Architecture Foundation and a commissioner on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. He was a member of the Olympic Delivery Authority which was responsible for building the Olympic Park in East London for 2012. Nicholas Serota was knighted in 1999 and appointed a Companion of Honour in 2013.

Nicholas Serota

Tim Davie became Director-General of the BBC on 1 September 2020. He is the 17th Director-General of the Corporation.Prior to this, Tim was Chief Executive of [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios), the BBC’s principal commercial subsidiary. Responsible for creating and distributing leading British content globally; Tim led [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios) from April 2013. Whilst in the role, he oversaw the merger between the BBC’s production arm and BBC Worldwide, the Corporation’s distribution company, and was responsible for an annual turnover of over £1.4bn.Tim was acting BBC Director-General between November 2012 and April 2013. During his time at the BBC, he has previously held the role of Director of Audio and Music, with overall responsibility for the BBC’s national radio output, its digital services and performing groups, and Director of the Marketing, Communications and Audiences division.Before joining the BBC, he was Vice President of Marketing and Franchise at PepsiCo Europe. Before this, Tim worked for Procter and Gamble after leaving Cambridge University where he read English.Tim is a Trustee of the Tate, a Trustee of the Royal Television Society and co-chairman of the Creative Industries Council; he is a former chair of [Comic Relief](/org/comic-relief-limited).Tim was appointed CBE in 2018 for services to International Trade.

Tim Davie

Tim Davie is the seventeenth Director-General of the BBC. He started in September 2020, succeeding Tony Hall in the role. He was previously the chief executive officer of [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios) (formerly known as BBC Worldwide). He served as acting Director-General of the BBC following George Entwistle's resignation in November 2012 until Lord Hall took over the role permanently in April 2013. During his time as acting director-general he oversaw the investigations into BBC management and conduct following revelations the broadcaster had known about sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile and then made false accusations against Alistair McAlpine.

Sir Robbie Gibb had a long career as a broadcast journalist in BBC News - he was head of BBC Westminster and Editor of Live Political Programmes, as well as Deputy Editor of BBC Two’s Newsnight. He left the BBC in 2017 to become Director of Communications at No10 Downing Street, stepping down in 2019. He also previously worked as an Editorial Advisor to GB News, until October 2020. Sir Robbie now works as a senior communications adviser at [Kekst CNC](/org/kekst-cnc) and is a Director of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper.

Robbie Gibb

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Muriel Gray is the former Chair of the Board of Governors at The Glasgow School Of Art, also the first woman to hold this office, and a Trustee of the British Museum.She presented Channel 4’s seminal live music programme The Tube, leading to a long career in broadcasting, and to the joint founding of a television production company that grew into one of the leading UK independents. She is a journalist and published author.

Muriel Gray

Shumeet Banerji is a Non-executive Director at BBC. Shumeet has an extensive background in business, having served as Chief Executive Officer at Booz & Company from 2008 to 2012, and as an Independent Director at [Proteus Digital Health](/org/proteus-digital-health) from 2015 to 2020. Prior to their current position, Banerji was a Board Member at [Tala](/org/tala) from 2016 to 2022.

Shumeet Banerji has a Ph.D in Business from [Northwestern University](/org/northwestern-university), an MBA from Delhi University, and a BA in Economics from St. Stephen's College in Delhi.

Shumeet Banerji

Damon Buffini

Storm Fagan leads BBC strategy and development in software and digital products, and is part of a new Digital Leadership Group, working closely with the CTO and their team.

Storm Fagan

O’Kane became interim CTO in September 2020, and was named CTO in February of 2021.

Peter O’Kane

Daniel winner

Many of the leading lights of today's broadcasting environment started their careers under Elan's tutelage at the University of Aberystwyth. A career academic, since 1976 she has developed the university’s reputation as a centre of excellence for communications and the creative industries, sending out students capable of ensuring that UK broadcasting remains at the forefront of quality and creativity.Alongside her academic career, Elan has enormous experience in policy and regulation through her roles on the Welsh Broadcasting Council and as Chair of the Welsh language broadcaster S4C. A native Welsh speaker who grew up in North Wales, Elan was formerly BBC Trustee for Wales.

Elan Closs Stephens

Shirley was Chief Financial Officer of Henderson Group plc, a FTSE 250 investment management company, from 2009-2013, and then a senior independent director, deputy chair and chair of the Audit Committee at esure Group plc until 2019. She is currently a senior independent director and chair of the Risk Committee at Hargreaves Lansdown plc, the FTSE100 financial services business.As well as working in financial roles, Shirley was previously Chief Operating Officer at Henderson Group plc and at Morley Fund Management (part of [Aviva](/org/aviva-plc)). She also served as a governor of the Peabody Trust housing association.She graduated with a first in Economics and Accounting from the [University of Bristol](/org/university-of-bristol) and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.The appointment was made by the BBC Board, following a recommendation by the BBC’s Nominations Committee.

Shirley Garrood

Ian Hargreaves CBE is Emeritus Professor in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at [Cardiff University](/org/cardiff-university). He has spent most of his career in the news industry where his roles included deputy editor of the [Financial Times](/org/financial-times), editor of the Independent, editor of the New Statesman and director of BBC News and Current Affairs. He was a founding board member of [Ofcom](/org/ofcom).

Ian Hargreaves

Gautam Rangarajan is currently the Group Director of Strategy and Performance at BBC. He and his team are responsible for the BBC's thinking on the evolution of markets, audiences and technologies and help develop creative and practical ideas for how the BBC and its services should respond to these changes.

Gautam began his career at the BBC in 1993 as a producer for Radio 3, going on to make music programmes across radio and television before moving into policy and strategy development across the BBC.

Gautam Rangarajan

In September 2020, Charlotte Moore was appointed Chief Content Officer and joined the BBC Board. She is the senior leader for BBC content and audiences across all genres and platforms, with the exception of News and Nations and Regions.In July 2016, Charlotte Moore became Director, BBC Content and Controller of BBC One. She was responsible for the creative vision across the portfolio of channels, BBC iPlayer and genres and took on oversight of BBC Sport.In January 2016, Charlotte Moore was appointed Controller of TV Channels and iPlayer, where she was the creative, editorial and strategic lead for BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer, ensuring the channels work in a complementary way while enhancing their distinctive positioning.Charlotte has been Controller of BBC One since June 2013. Under her leadership, BBC One enhanced its position as the nation’s most popular TV channel.2015 was BBC One's most successful in nearly a decade, with 42 million people tuning in every week. BBC One was the 2015 Channel of the Year and won the most awards at the 2016 Baftas. BBC One provides a range of distinctive, high-quality programmes that feel relevant and reflect the diversity of modern Britain. It unites us as a nation around the big, shared moments - political, historic, sporting and cultural. Last year's Great British Bake Off final was watched live by a peak of more than 14 million people. It’s the place for the nation to come together and to find programmes that are timely and relevant, and speak to a wide audience - the channel that tackles big, universal subjects, and stories that people care about and become part of our everyday conversation. Charlotte’s ambition is to innovate within the mainstream by creating hits for the future, whilst ensuring much-loved long-running shows feel fresh and in touch with the audience. Over the last year, BBC One has taken risks and pushed boundaries with new shows like Doctor Foster, The Night Manager, Peter Kay’s Car Share, David Attenborough’s Giant Dinosaur, Behind Closed Doors and Abused: The Untold Story. She’s also successfully launched new factual strands, whilst ensuring its returning shows are at the top of their game.Charlotte spent the early part of 2013 as Acting Controller of BBC Daytime Television. Prior to that Charlotte was the BBC’s Commissioning Editor of Documentaries since 2009 where she was responsible for strategy and commissioning for in-house and independents across all four channels. Charlotte transformed the genre to produce a huge breadth of original programming, seeking out the best talent to bring the most compelling and inspiring documentary content to a broad audience. From Bafta-winning titles Protecting Our Children, 7/7 One Day In London, Between Life and Death, The Great British Bake Off, Terry Pratchett’s Choosing To Die, The Choir and Welcome To Lagos to hit series like Inside Claridges, The Call Centre, Lambing Live and The Tube.She joined the BBC in 2006 as Commissioning Executive for Documentaries. Prior to joining the BBC, Charlotte was Director of Contemporary Factual at IWC Media focusing on high-profile contemporary narrative documentaries and series for all the major UK channels, including BBC Two’s landmark series Stephen Fry: The Secret Life Of A Manic Depressive.

Charlotte Moore

James Purnell

Sarah Jones is the current Group General Counsel at BBC. Sarah previously worked as a senior associate at [Allen & Overy](/org/allen-overy) from January 1985 to December 1996.

Sarah Jones went to Sutton High School and then the [University of Oxford](/org/university-of-oxford) for law.

Sarah Jones reports to Tim Davie, Director General. Sarah Jones works with Tom Fussell - CEO, [BBC Studios](/org/bbc-studios), John Shield - Director, Communications and Corporate Affairs, and Kerris Bright - Chief Customer Officer.

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