Peter Johnson

Pete Johnson joined British Screen Forum (then BSAC) as Chief Executive in September 2016. He was previously Chief Executive of The Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD) since its Designation by Ofcom in March 2010 as the co-regulatory authority with responsibility for editorial content in On-Demand Programme Services.

In this role, he was responsible for ensuring that UK video on demand services complied with the requirements of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive as they apply to editorial content, and worked closely with the regulated industry through the ATVOD Industry Forum. He was previously Head of Policy and Business Development at the British Board of Film Classification, where he was responsible for all aspects of regulatory policy and research, and for the development of new classification services for both packaged media and video on demand providers.