Biographies

Director, London 2012

Roger Mosey is the BBC's Director of London 2012 – responsible for planning coverage of the Olympics across all genres and platforms. This includes the Cultural Olympiad; major events in the build-up to the Games; and co-ordinating the BBC's activities locally, nationally and globally. He took up the role in April 2009.

Roger's previous roles include being Editor of Today on BBC Radio 4; Controller of BBC Radio 5 Live; Head of BBC Television News; and most recently Director of Sport.

Roger was born in Bradford in 1958 and educated at Bradford Grammar School, followed by Wadham College, Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern History and Modern Languages.

After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer; and his BBC career began in 1980 when he joined BBC Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter.

Roger's first job in network radio was on The Week In Westminster, and he then moved to Today as a producer and to the BBC's New York bureau before becoming editor of PM in 1987. He was editor of Radio 4's Today programme from March 1993 until his appointment as Controller of 5 Live at the beginning of 1997.

Under Roger's editorship, Today won Sony Gold Awards in 1994 and 1995, a British Environment & Media Award and was named Radio Programme of the Year by the Broadcasting Press Guild in 1995.

Radio 5 Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998; and BBC Television News won a number of Royal Television Society awards for journalism – including Programme of the Year for Newsnight (2002) and the Ten O'Clock News (2004). The Ten O'Clock News also received Bafta awards in both 2004 and 2005.

Roger recruited James Naughtie to join the Today presenting team and introduced Nicky Campbell, Victoria Derbyshire and Richard Littlejohn to 5 Live.

He brought Natasha Kaplinsky to the BBC to present Breakfast and Gabby Logan to BBC Sport.

In his time in Sport he oversaw the coverage of the 2006 World Cup and the Beijing Olympics, as well as the return of Formula 1 to the BBC.

Roger led the Sport Creative Future project that put greater emphasis on digital media and which has delivered considerable growth in audiences online and through interactive services.

His interests include football – he is a Bradford City fan – films, and reading thrillers and political biographies. He is a trustee of the National Media Museum in Bradford.