Anna Godfrey is Head of Evidence at BBC Media Action, the BBC’s international charity. Working with a global research team, she leads work to understand if and how programming delivers impact for diverse communities around the world.

Benedek Paskuj, with experience in social, academic and market research, is BBC Media Action’s quantitative research manager. He supports the global research team on delivering rigorous research and builds links between academia and practice to support evidence-based programming.

Carl Miller investigates the hidden realities of the digital age. Uniting his work across investigatory journalism, think tank research and entrepreneurial technology development is an interest in revealing the true nature of power in the digital age. Carl speaks to audiences around the world about what the digital revolution means to them and how they can stay ahead of the curve.

His first book, The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab was published in 2018 and he presents programmes for the BBC’s flagship technology show, Click, and co-founded The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media (CASM) at Demos in 2013 and CASM Technology in 2014. He won the 2019 Transmission Prize, jointly won the US-Paris Tech Challenge in 2021 for innovative responses to disinformation and was tech partner to the winner of the Innovation of the Year Award at the British Journalism Awards in 2022. He’s a Visiting Fellow at King’s College London, and is a member and fellow at many well-known institutions including the Imperial War Museum, the Global Network on Extremism and Technology, and Challenging Pseudoscience group at the Royal Institution. Carl has written for The Economist, The Sunday Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review, Wired, New Scientist, The Telegraph, the Atlantic, and the Guardian.

Catherine is BAFTA albert’s Head of Climate Content. BAFTA albert is the leading body for sustainability in TV & Film in the UK, founded in 2011 to support the film and TV industry to reduce the environmental impact of production and support on-screen content that shows a vision for a sustainable future. Catherine works at BAFTA albert to support, celebrate and empower great climate storytelling across the TV & Film Industry. Prior to working at BAFTA albert Catherine worked as a Senior TV Producer/Director in Unscripted, working across genres from specialist factual to entertainment for major UK and US broadcasters, including ITV, Channel 4, 5, BBC, FOX and TLC.

She is also qualified in Business Sustainability Management from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and is certified in TV/Film Sustainability by BAFTA albert.

Josh is a British-Zanzibari producer and changemaker. After a brief stint working in finance and a longer one producing for theatre, he began working in the screen industries. He has worked for broadcasters, distributors and independent production companies and as a script consultant, specialising in projects tackling social and political issues. Josh has authored research on the cultural industries, including a 2024 paper on the equitability of the BFI’s funding practices.

Josh set up Climate Spring with Lucy Stone and James Durrant in 2020. Josh has also worked in philanthropy with a focus on DEI and research, and is a Trustee of both the Arvon Foundation and the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation.

Mahdi Zaki, born in Afghanistan, has worked with several think tanks in Afghanistan and is currently BBC Media Action Research Manager for the Afghanistan office.

Executive Director of Original Scripted, UK and Ireland at Sky Studios, Lyvers leads the teams responsible for developing, commissioning, and producing unmissable scripted Sky Original drama, comedy and film for Sky’s 23m customers and beyond.

Based in London, she commissions directly from production companies, as well as working with talent to develop and produce projects in house, or in co-production, with a flexible business model to work in creative partnership.

Recent titles from Sky include the critically acclaimed limited event series, ‘Mary and George’ starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine and ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’, a six-part series based on the international bestselling novel by Heather Morris, Michael Mann feature film ‘Ferrari’ starring Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz, and ‘May December’ featuring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. Upcoming series include ‘The Day of The Jackal’, starring Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, ‘Lockerbie’ starring Colin Firth who plays Jim Swire, the father campaigning for justice for his daughter, and the return of the much-loved and biggest Sky Original comedy ‘Brassic’, which will see season six launch this September. Coming soon in film, Kate Winslet stars in ‘Lee’ about the acclaimed war photographer Lee Miller, directed by Ellen Kuras.

Saffron is Professor of Climate and Society, in the Geography Department at the University of Exeter. Her research explores the social science dimensions of climate variability and change, particularly focusing on communication and public engagement. Her research specialism is the visual communication of climate change.

Saffron is Co-Director of the new Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS), which launched earlier this year. C3DS research aims to improve strategic communications to deliver meaningful action on climate change. C3DS works at the intersection of social science, computational science and AI, and with practitioners. Some of their emerging work is focussing on the narratives and frames in television content.

Tania Nikitina holds a PhD in Sociology and has two decades of experience working on research and media in Ukraine. She is BBC Media Action’s Senior Research Manager in Eastern Europe and Central Asia team in London.