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After her family"s return to Britain, she attended Holland Park Comprehensive and then read history at Wadham College, Oxford.
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Kim Shillinglaw
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Following the merger of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s channel controller posts in January 2016, Shillinglaw will be made redundant later in the year. After her graduation, she joined Observer Films in 1990 (for a time part of the Guardian Media Group) as a researcher, eventually becoming a series producer. Following this, Shillinglaw worked for Independent Television and Channel 4.
From 2006, Shillinglaw worked as an executive producer for British Broadcasting Corporation London Factual and the commissioner of independent productions for CBBC. Working under Karen O"Connor from late 2007, she then became one of ten "creative leads" in London Factual.
From May 2009, she was the British Broadcasting Corporation"s commissioning editor for science and natural history responsible around 2012 for 200 hours of programming per year. The proportion of science broadcasting on British Broadcasting Corporation One is reported to have risen during Shillinglaw"s period in charge of the department.
During 2012 and 2013, she was executive producer of Bang Goes the Theory. Shillinglaw assumed her posts as controller of both British Broadcasting Corporation Two and British Broadcasting Corporation Four in April 2014 in succession to Janice Hadlow.
During her period as the 13th, and final, controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Two, Shiilinglaw is reported to have increased the hours of science on the channel as well as the number of female presenters and experts on screen.
Shillinglaw was reported less keen to commission programmes about environmental issues. The posts of British Broadcasting Corporation One, British Broadcasting Corporation Two and British Broadcasting Corporation Four controllers were abolished by the British Broadcasting Corporation"s director general Tony Hall in January 2016, with the current British Broadcasting Corporation One controller Charlotte Moore being appointed to the overall post. Shillinglaw is to leave the British Broadcasting Corporation, but according to The Guardian, she will work through her six month notice period.
Shillinglaw is married to the television producer Steve Condie who has worked on Newsnight and other programmes.
The couple live in West London and have two children.
