Fiona Campbell is Controller of BBC Three, the home of content for under 35s on BBC iPlayer where she holds overall responsibility for content commissioning across platforms and oversees the strategy of the channel.
BBC Three is responsible for brands such as RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Glow Up, The Rap Game and This Country and, under Fiona’s leadership, won ‘Online Channel of the Year’ at the Edinburgh TV Awards and ‘Channel of the year’ at the Broadcast Digital Awards.
Previously Fiona was Digital Director for BBC News where she developed BBC News presence on third party platforms such as Apple News, Facebook and Instagram as well as the BBC News app and website. Fiona also spent five years as a Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 News between 2005 – 2009 where she also Executive produced Dispatches output. She began in production as a researcher on the Money Programme in London in 1994 and went on to work on Watchdog and Panorama as an Assistant Producer and then Producer-Director during the Kosovo and Iraq Wars. She also was a Commissioning Editor for Documentaries and Current Affairs at BBC Three just before the Channel went online.
She was born and brought up in Belfast and has a young son, Lorcan.