Roger Mosey

Background

He 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.

Education

Wadham College.

Career

His previous roles for the corporation have included being Editor of Today on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. Controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live. As well as Head of British Broadcasting Corporation Television News.

Mosey became the Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge in October 2013.

After university he joined Pennine Radio, Bradford, as a Community Affairs Producer. And his British Broadcasting Corporation career began in 1980 when he joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Lincolnshire as a reporter.

His first job in network radio was on The Week In Westminster, and he then moved to Today Programme as a producer and to the British Broadcasting Corporation"s New York bureau before becoming editor of Prime Minister in 1987. He was editor of Radio 4"s Today Programme from March 1993 until his appointment as Controller of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live at the beginning of 1997.

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

He brought Dermot Murnaghan and Natasha Kaplinsky to the British Broadcasting Corporation to present Breakfast. He is a Fellow of The Radio Academy. In 2003, when Head of News at the British Broadcasting Corporation he was asked to head up a landmark workstream looking at the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Values.

As Head of Sport he cancelled Grandstand after a 48 year run and oversaw the move to Salford Quays in 2010.

He was in charge of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s coverage of the 2012 Olympics, and was replaced as Head of Sport by Barbara Slater, who oversaw the move of British Broadcasting Corporation Sport to MediaCityUK in Salford Quays in 2011. He became the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Editorial Director in May 2013, but this appointment proved to be short lived.

Upon leaving the British Broadcasting Corporation, Mosey highlighted the various biases in the work of the organisation. Writing in The Times, he noted that the organisation was too left-wing, had failed to "give enough space to anti-immigration views or to European Union-withdrawalists" and had uniformity in its views.

Mosey proposed that the organisation should share the licence fee with others

In 2013, Mosey was elected to succeed Richard Bowring as the Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Announced on 2 July, he took up the role in October 2013. In 2013 it was announced Mosey would be the Chair of Bishop Grosseteste University"s university council.

His interests include football (he is a Bradford City fan) movies, and reading thrillers and political biographies.

Achievements

• Under his editorship, Today Programme 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. British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live was named the Sony National Radio Station of the Year 1998. And British Broadcasting Corporation 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 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards in both 2004 and 2005.

Membership

He appeared on University Challenge in 1978, as a member of the team representing his college.