Aasmah Mir presents Saturday Live on Radio 4 and reports for the Tonight programme on ITV. She also reports for ITV during general elections and referendums. Born in Glasgow, she studied law at Bristol University and her first job was reading the news on STV at the age of 21. She switched to radio – presenting on Radio 5 Live for 11 years and then Radio 4 since 2014. As well as TV election reporting, she reports on live events for BBC1 including the Centenary of Votes for Women (2018) and the Centenary of the Battle of Jutland (2016) with David Dimbleby. She has been a contestant on both Celebrity Mastermind and Celebrity Masterchef.

Alex Mahon is the Chief Executive of Channel 4, a publicly owned and commercially funded public service media organisation that creates change through entertainment. Under Alex's leadership, Channel 4 has transformed into a digital-first public media company with the UK's biggest free streaming service and one of the largest social media brands for young people in the UK. During this period, Channel 4's public ownership has been secured, its impact across the nations and regions has grown, and its investment in skills has opened up the sector to those aspiring to a career in television and film.

Alex is a passionate supporter of equitable representation and is committed to championing women's health at work. Prior to Channel 4, she was CEO of Foundry and before that of Shine Group. She has also worked at Talkback Thames, Fremantle Media Group and RTL Group. Alex started her career as a PhD Physicist with a stint at CERN before moving into launching internet businesses. Alex is currently a member of the UK Creative Industries Council and an ambassador for London Tech Week. She is a Non-Executive Board Member of Chanel Inc and has been on the Advisory Board of Salesforce.

Amanda Rees was appointed as S4C’s Creative Director of Content in 2016.

Amanda has had a long-standing career in TV and was previously Creative Director at production company Tifini. Since joining S4C Amanda has bought some hugely successful programmes to the screen including hit dramas such as Un Bore Mercher/Keeping Faith and ground-breaking children programmes such as Broadcast nominated Deian a Loli and BAFTA winning Prosiect Z. She has ensured rights for the biggest sporting events including coverage of Wales’ Euro qualifying matches and the Rugby World Cup in September 2019. She has managed to showcase international entertainment events including the Junior Eurovision Choir and Song Contest.

Amanda’s strategy to diversify S4C’s audience and future proof the channel saw the making of online service Hansh which has proved to be hugely successful. Amanda has also been vital in promoting S4C programmes on an international scale and many of S4C’s original formats can now be enjoyed in countries across the world.

Anna Dickeson is a Series Producer/Director based in Leeds specialising in observational documentaries and has extensive experience of high profile fixed rig series. Anna joined The Garden at the end of 2018 as Creative Lead of The Garden Yorkshire to work across regional production and develop projects.

Before joining The Garden Anna has spent over 10 years working for a number of leading indies including Twofour, Dragonfly, Blast and Blakeway North.

As well as developing various series for the BBC and Channel 4, most recently A Very Northern Hotel (wt) for BBC1, Anna Series Produced and Directed the first series of The Secret Life of the Zoo (C4) and prior to that has Produced and Directed on multiple BAFTA and RTS nominated series including Educating the East End and One Born Every Minute as well as producing on the first three series of 24 Hours in A&E.

Her First Cut documentary ‘My Baggy Body’ (C4) received the channels highest ever viewing figures for the series and was nominated for a North West RTS award. Other credits include The Job Centre (C4) and Parking Wars (ITV) the Wonderland documentary ‘Boy Cheerleaders’ (BBC2) and The Air Hospital for Cutting Edge (C4).

Ayesha Hazarika MBE was a special adviser to Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband from 2007 to 2015. While in government, she specialised in women’s issues and helped draft the landmark Equality Act 2010. She is now a much sought-after political commentator and broadcaster.

She is a columnist and political commentator for the London Evening Standard and writes for many other national publications. She frequently appears on television and radio including the BBC’s Question Time, Andrew Marr Show, Newsnight, Sky News, Good Morning Britain, LBC and CNN where she’s a regular pundit on domestic and international affairs. She has also appeared on Have I Got News For You and Radio 4’s The News Quiz.

Her first book ‘Punch and Judy Politics’ – a history and insider’s guide to the art of Prime Minister’s Questions – was published in May 2018.

Ayesha is also an award-winning stand-up comedian.

Ben is Chief Content Officer, UK, at Paramount (formerly ViacomCBS), with oversight of Channel 5 and its digital brands, the wider Paramount channel portfolio, and the global streaming service Paramount+ UK which launched in June 2022.

Under Ben's leadership, Channel 5 has undergone a creative transformation through continued investment in high quality originations across all genres, and a focus on increasing original commissions for peak time. Channel 5 has broadened the scope of its programming, commissioning drama, history and more, to build on its roots in factual programming and attract talent including Michael Palin, Susan Calman, Jay Blades and Jeremy Vine. This fundmental shift in the channel's perception - and wider audience appeal - has been recognised with a raft of industry awards, including Channel 5's first ever BAFTA for Cruising with Jane McDonald, Channel of the Year awards from Edinburgh and the RTS, and accolades for programmes across a range of genres.

Crispin Sadler is a specialist factual producer with a passion for marine archaeology. In 2002 he formed a partnership with a childhood friend, Simon Mallinson, and Mallinson Sadler Productions was born in 2002.

The first ‘Drain’ show, ‘Drain the Great Lakes’ was pitched to national Geographic in 2009, went into production in 2010 and delivered in 2011. After that came five more shows on an annual basis until 2018 when the first series of 10 x 47’00” episodes were made. This year, 2019, 15 episodes are being made with Series 3 planned for 2020.

Dan began his TV career in the regions making items for Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television, before relocating to join the Top Gear team at BBC Birmingham. He then headed to London to build his career working for many of the major indies, leading to a BAFTA for his work in the boardroom on the first two series of The Apprentice.

In 2010 he joined Twofour Group to head up the production base in Devon where this year his team will produce over 80 hours of network television.

Deborah Dunnett is a Commissioning Editor for Daytime and Features from Channel 4's Glasgow Hub. She commissions a range of content from Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig to Miriam Margolyes and Alan Cumming: Lost in Scotland plus all Matt Baker's More 4 series. Upcoming titles include Joe and Katherine's Bargain Holidays and The Big Interiors Battle - a competition to win a luxury apartment, mortgage free.

Before moving into this role Deborah was Nations & Regions Manager for Channel 4 - helping Indies make the most of the broadcaster's commitment to spend outside of London. Working closely across all commissioning genres, Deborah led strategy on increasing Indie engagement across the UK as well as running the Alpha Fund for small and emerging indies. She was also responsible for stakeholder engagement in the Nations and Regions.

Prior to Channel 4 Deborah was an Exec Producer and Head of Development in Glasgow, creating Scotland's leading free-to-access recruitment site on the side.

Emyr Afan is an accomplished exec producer, multi-cam director, and ideas creative. He co-founded Avanti in 1995, and has built one of the most successful TV production companies in Wales. In 2017, alongside partners Nine Lives Media, Avanti won the contract to produce BBC’s flagship series, Songs of Praise. Avanti is based in Cardiff & Manchester. In 2018 Sky acquired a majority stake in Avanti with a view to developing the business in the UK and internationally

Recent credits; The Mobo’s C5, Para’s: Ready for War ITV1, Secrets of Henry the VIII’s Warship C4, Plastic not Fantastic BBC3, Jonathan S4C

Ewan Douglas leads the Channel 4 Nations & Regions commercial business based in Manchester, working with advertisers, agencies and producers across the breadth of the UK & Ireland. He is passionate about television and believes connecting brands with high quality programmes and mass audiences is enormously powerful. Ewan and his team partner advertisers across; spot advertising , sponsorship, digital, AFP, product placement and content creation.Ewan is a strong advocate of the talent that thrives in the creative industries across all parts of the UK. Prior to joining Channel 4 he held a series of roles with Scottish Television.

Fiona's focus is on launching shows that attract the UK under 35 audience in scripted and unscripted. Her work also involves the social media and off platform journeys that can drive a show's success.

BBC iPlayer is the home of youth skewing titles such as RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Glow Up, The Rap Game UK, I Kissed A Boy as well as scripted shows such as Dreaming Whilst Black, Man Like Mobeen, Normal People, BAFTA winning Mood from Nicole Lecky and the forthcoming Boarders ( ALL3Media ), Kidnapped (BBC Studios) and Good Girls Guide to Murder (Moonage Pictures).

Previously Fiona was Digital Director of BBC News working on BBC News content and partnerships with global platforms such as Facebook, Snap, Apple, Twitter and Jio. In her early career Fiona produced current affairs documentaries internationally including, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Africa and Asia and was also a Commissioning Editor on Channel 4 News in the UK.

Hélène commissions natural history, history science, adventure and human interest programmes. Before that, she was a London-based freelance producer, writer and director for more than 10 years working mostly for the BBC in-house specialist factual unit.

Her credits include 700 Sharks for Arte and National Geographic, Lost Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs for Arte, Channel and Discovery Science, Okavango: River of Dreams for Arte and PBS, Forces of Nature for BBC1, Wonders of life; Oceans and Trust Me I’m A Doctor for BBC2, Animal Fight Night for National Geographic and Supersized Earth for Discovery.

In 2000 Jane was appointed the BBC’s first Controller of Drama Commissioning. Alongside Julie Gardner she instigated Cardiff’s development as a major hub for BBC drama production in Wales beginning with the revival of Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood.

In 2006 she was made BBC Controller of Fiction, adding BBC Films, Programme Acquisition and Comedy commissioning to her responsibilities.

In 2009 she received BAFTA’s Special Award in recognition of her outstanding creative contribution to the television industry.

From 2009 – 2015 Jane was based in America where she headed BBC Worldwide’s Los Angeles production arm. Whilst there, Jane produced over 800 hours of scripted and unscripted television including Life Below Zero, Da Vinci’s Demons, Getting On and Steven Zaillian’s The Night Of for HBO which triumphed at the 2017 Emmy Awards.

In August 2015 Jane partnered with long-time collaborator Julie Gardner to start Bad Wolf – an independent production company based in South Wales and Los Angeles – to make high-end film and television drama for global audiences.

Since the opening of Wolf Studios Wales in Cardiff, Bad Wolf has produced series 1 of A Discovery of Witches, an 8-part drama series for Sky One based on the best-selling All Souls Trilogy of novels by Deborah Harkness and written for TV by Kate Brooke. Currently in post-production is a new television series of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, adapted by Jack Thorne, and co-produced with New Line Cinema.

Jane is an honorary fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and of the Royal Television Society.

Jo Street is the Director of Commissioning, Nations and Regions & Head of Lifestyle at Channel 4 where she oversees a huge slate of some of the most popular returning series on the channel, like Great Pottery Throwdown, Location, Location, Location, Extraordinary Extensions, Kirstie & Phil’s Love it or List it, Come Dine With Me, Renovation Rescue, Countdown… Based out of the Glasgow Hub of C4, she manages a commissioning team that is spread across the UK and is a passionate advocate for commissioning Out of London & a champion of Nations & Regions production companies. Prior to joining C4 she had 25 years at the BBC where, amongst other things she directed Countryfile, Exec’d the Weakest Link and commissioned the long running returning series The Hit List, Antiques Road Trip & Money For Nothing.