Overview
- BAFTA announced on Tuesday that Hilary Rosen will succeed Sara Putt as chair when Putt’s three‑year term ends, formalizing the academy’s planned leadership change.
- Rosen has served as BAFTA deputy chair for the past year and was a Television Committee member from 2021 who later chaired that committee while remaining director of commissioning at UKTV.
- Ade Rawcliffe and Andrew Miller were named deputy chairs and will each serve two‑year terms to support Rosen on the academy’s board.
- Following an internal election BAFTA appointed Charu Desodt as Games Committee chair, Caroline Levy as Television Committee chair, Nahrein Kemp as LIT Committee chair, and added Shrina Shah to the Board of Trustees.
- The new slate blends commissioning, production, DEI and games experience and is likely to influence how BAFTA runs awards juries, shapes training programmes, and targets diversity and development funding going forward.