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CEO of the UK's leading charity, supporting workers in the film, television and cinema sector experiencing issues related to financial hardship, mental health and physical health, and addressing sector barriers of equity to ensure everyone's career can reach its full potential.

London Area, United Kingdom

RADA has offered dramatic arts training for over a century. Today the Academy is a world-leader in both acting and theatre production disciplines.As Chair of Council I provide oversight and support for the Academy.

Managing and overseeing all external relationships with UK media experts and stakeholders including BBC, Channel 4, Financial Times, and Ofcom.I have worked with all the UK Public Service Broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Viacom) and Sky on issues of diversity and inclusion.I have overseen specific projects to ensure better policy design and implementation across the media industry. This is achieved by capturing current knowledge and institutional memory of media practitioners, and combining this with the latest academic research and theories.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Executive Committee member responsible for launching the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity. The Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity is an independent body drawing on the work and experience of media professionals and academics to track the progress of media diversity in the UK.The Centre aims to critically analyse policies in the media industry with a view to increasing diversity and inclusion, improving policy decisions and spreading best practice.

Beijing, China

Caixin Global is China’s premier financial publication. I oversee all of Caixin’s new media audio and visual content. I lead a team of diverse international journalists. I oversee their production of news and current affairs content for a global audience online and for various social media platforms. Key Editorial & Diversity AchievementsLaunched podcasts and short video series.Responsible for trusted business independent journalism from a Chinese perspective. Have increased on-screen and on-mic gender and ethnic diversity by over 100%

Beijing City, China

International Editor for China’s largest international broadcaster - China Global Television News (CGTN). In this role I am responsible for trying to ensure high quality content and giving editorial advice and direction for all CGTN’s online content and social media - including the CGTN website and APP, as well as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. From day to day, I worked in a department of over 50 Chinese and non-Chinese international journalists - some of whom have no news experience. This involved working in a highly pressured, and often journalistically challenging environment. I led structural and cultural changes, introducing internationally recognised standards, while ensuring the implementation of the latest technological advances in news and current affairs. My achievements to date have included:- Over a very short space of 2 months, I oversaw the re-launch and re-branding of all the then “CCTV News English” digital platforms and social media into CGTN. The launch took place in January 2017 and was well received.- Successfully persuading the broadcaster’s senior management to shift from producing a 90:10 split of China:International stories to a 50:50 shift, in order to make CGTN’s output more internationally appealing;- Initiating a staff restructure and training programme moving away from "generalist" journalists to reporters specialising in specific fields/"beats";- Major capacity building, creating a whole new planning system for the newsroom;- Encouraging and supporting Chinese journalists to find unique perspectives on existing stories to provide an Asian perspective;- Creating and overseeing an entirely new, streamlined process for commissioning opinion pieces from Chinese and non-Chinese experts.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Commissioning and executive producing all BBC Scotland's Current Affairs programmes: 12x30mins TV programmes, 3x60mins TV programmes, 10x30mins Radio documentaries and special investigative news items.Pitch, develop and executive produce all of BBC Scotland's Current Affairs programmes for UK network (including 4 - 5 Panorama programmes a year)Part of BBC Scotland's News management overseeing news output, programming and staffing.

London, United Kingdom

I am passionate about increasing diversity in the TV industry. Therefore I was honoured to be asked to chair this committee, and did so voluntarily for six years until I moved to China. In this role I worked particularly closely with Lenny Henry, and embraced the RTS’s role as an educational institution to educate and inform both the industry and general public about television. I wrote regularly on diversity issues, used my wide network across the industry to organize over 20 public and closed door events related to diversity, hugely raising the profile of the RTS in this area. I also regularly appeared on panels and give expert advice to various bodies on diversity, including the UK government. I worked collaboratively with major broadcasters and industry bodies including the BBC, Channel4, ITV and Sky, as well as OFCOM, to initiate cooperative action.In this role my key achievements included:- I was invited to and gave evidence to the Parliamentary Culture, Media & Sport Committee on diversity, alongside other diversity in the media leaders Lenny Henry and Pat Younge;- Organised the first ever “hustings” focused on diversity - including all the UK’s major party’s culture, media and sports respective ministers, shadows and spokespersons in the Houses of Parliament.- Initiated and wrote papers to explain new ideas including ring-fencing finance for diversity and implementing a diversity points system for awarding money - later taken up by both Channel 4 and the British Film Institute in various forms;- Sought and received the first legal advice on various diversity initiatives, which has provided the framework for how private companies have implemented diversity schemes.- Was instrumental in advising the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport to include diversity as a core value in the BBC's charter for the first time.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Lecture in journalism to postgraduate students

London, United Kingdom

Series Producer of "Whistleblower" the BBC's primetime undercover current affairs series. The series investigated corruption in Britain's banks, illegal activity in Britain's leading supermarkets, criminality in the bailiff industry and corruption in UK's Estate Agents.

London, United Kingdom

Oversaw several BBC1 and BBC2 primetime documentary series including: Food Police (following Britain's food inspectors), War At The Door (filming neighbour conflicts), Airport (filming life at Britain's busiest airport), Trading Races (using prosthetic make up to "change" the race of members of the public0

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics, 2:I

Activities and Societies: President of African Students Association, Basketball Team,

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Journalism