Biographies

Chief Operating Officer, BBC Future Media & Technology

Kerstin Mogull is the Chief Operating Officer, BBC Future Media & Technology. She took up the newly created role in September 2008.

In this role, Kerstin focuses on the effective management and governance of the division, its partnership wth other BBC divisions – Vision, Audio & Music and Journalism – and its relationship with the BBC Trust.

She was previously Deputy Director, Policy & Strategy, where she played an instrumental role in driving the BBC's strategy for content across all media platforms.

Prior to this, Kerstin was Controller for the Strategy Group, where she was responsible for some of the Corporation's most important initiatives, including Delivering Creative Future.

Kerstin Mogull was born in Stockholm.

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

Kerstin joined the BBC in 2001.

She held a number of posts in BBC Ventures, developing an international strategy for the BBC's technology and play-out services, before moving to Factual and Learning as Head of Strategy in April 2004.

In Factual and Learning, she was part of the team that led the Content Supply Review, an in-depth analysis of the BBC's commissioning and production systems. Kerstin also drew up the strategy for Knowledge Building content across all platforms.

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.

In addition to the US and UK she has worked in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Sweden.