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// LEADING LEGEND June Sarpong appointed Director of Creative Diversity

Broadcaster, writer and campaigner, June Sarpong MBE has been
appointed as the BBC’s Director of Creative Diversity.
JUNE SARPONG June will lead a renewed drive to transform and modernise the BBC and

its culture. She will work to increase representation and ensure that con-
tent reflects the public they serve. She will take up her new role from 1
November 2019.

June is an internationally renowned broadcaster, writer and
campaigner on diversity issues. She started her career as a DJ and pre-
senter on MTV, Kiss FM and for ten years on Channel 4’s T4 youth strand.
She has gone on to appear as a panellist on ITV’s Loose Women and now
on Sky News’ The Pledge.
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