Biographies

Chief Operating Officer,
BBC Future Media

Kerstin Mogull is the COO of the BBC's Future Media division.

She is responsible for ensuring the division's business operations deliver against the group's overall objectives – creating interactive digital media services that deliver the BBC's mission, purposes and editorial priorities in the internet age.

In her role, Kerstin also manages the Future Media Business Development Team, which is responsible for developing the technology partnerships that enable BBC services to be accessed on third-party platforms and devices, and she oversees Legal & Business Affairs, the ITACU team and Risk management.

She took up her position in September 2008.

She was previously the BBC's Deputy Director of Policy & Strategy, where she played an instrumental role in driving the BBC's strategy for content across all platforms, including the organisation's six-year plan, Delivering Creative Future.

Prior to this, Kerstin was the Controller for the Strategy Group where she was responsible for some of the corporation's most important initiatives, including the strategy for BBC iPlayer and the overall BBC reorganisation in 2006.

Kerstin continues to play a role in various pan-BBC initiatives, primarily through her leadership of the BBC portfolio of major, long-term, transformational projects.

Kerstin joined the BBC in 2000.

Prior to joining the BBC, Kerstin held senior strategy posts in the airline industry with United Airlines and American Airlines, first in the United States and later in the UK.

She started her career in Sweden in the IT industry with Ericsson.

Kerstin was born in Sweden. She has a degree in economics awarded jointly by the Stockholm School of Economics and HEC in Paris, and she earned an MBA in Chicago where she was a Fulbright Scholar.