Jana Bennett
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Jana Bennett OBE is Director of Vision at the BBC. She took up the post in 2006, having previously been Director of Television since April 2002. Previously she had been Executive Vice President and General Manager at Discovery Communications in the United States.
Born in Cooperstown, New York State, Bennett moved to Britain in 1969, and first joined the BBC in 1979. She worked on various news and current affairs programmes before becoming editor of Horizon in 1990. In 1994 she was appointed the BBC's Head of Science, and was awarded an OBE in 2000 for her work in science broadcasting.
She was promoted from Director of Television to Director of Vision when the new BBC Vision group was formed by combining the corporation's Television, Drama Entertainment & Children's and Factual & Learning divisions.
She has overall creative and leadership responsibility for BBC One, BBC Two, the digital channels BBC Three and BBC Four, as well as overseeing content on the UKTV channels and BBC America.
Jana also heads commissioning within the four genre-led groups, Fiction, Knowledge, Children's and Entertainment, and all in-house television and multi-media content creation through BBC Vision Studios.
The final section within the group is BBC Vision Operations and Rights, which includes production modernisation, rights and business affairs, and commercial and business development.
Bennett is married to Richard Clemmow, the managing director of TV production company Juniper. The couple have two children.
