Last updated December 2006
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Sandy Smith is the Editor of Panorama, the BBC's award-winning current affairs series.
Sandy took over the post at the BBC One programme in September 2006.
He has worked at the BBC since 1988 with much of that time spent producing and directing programmes for the current affairs department.
From August 2005, Sandy was the Editor of the BBC One programme Watchdog.
Sandy produced the Panorama Special – London Under Attack following the 7 July bombings in London in 2005 and was Series Producer on News and Current Affairs' three-part series for BBC Two, The New al-Qaeda, presented by Peter Taylor, which aired in July and August 2005.
In September 2004, he was the Producer/Director of the double Bafta-nominated The Brighton Bomb and The Hunt For The Bomber.
Sandy has substantial experience in international current affairs.
He was the Series Producer of Undercover World, a foreign investigations series for BBC Two, and worked as a Producer/Director on the foreign affairs series Correspondent.
Other credits include launching and series producing Just One Chance, an education series.
He was Outside Broadcast Producer on What the World Thinks Of America and was Senior Producer on Black Britain.
Sandy was Editor and later Acting Executive Editor at BBC London where he led a complete overhaul of the regional TV news programme.
Sandy joined the BBC as a Producer, then Output Editor, for Newsroom South East and was also News Editor at the former Greater London Radio from 1993 to 1994.
Prior to this he worked on local papers and as a freelance reporter.
