Jay Hunt

Chief Creative Officer, Channel 4

Jay Hunt took up the role of chief creative officer for Channel 4 in 2011 and has brought a multitude of popular shows to the channel, including Utopia, The Undateables and Gogglebox. She has also acquired hit TV shows from abroad, including Homeland, Fargo and The Returned. Born in Australia, Hunt lived in Pennsylvania and Scotland before she moved to London. She read English at Cambridge before embarking on her television career, and worked at the BBC for 20 years. Under Hunt’s leadership, Channel 4 was named Channel of the Year at the Edinburgh International Television Festival in 2014, and she has been named as one of the UK’s 100 most powerful women by BBC Radio 4.

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