Jacqueline Leigh "Jay" Hunt (born 20 January 1967) is an Australian-born British television executive working as Creative Director, Worldwide Video, Europe for Apple. From early 2011 until June 2017, Hunt was the Chief Creative Officer of Channel 4. She has previously served as Director of Programmes at Channel 5, and as Controller of BBC One. She is the only person to have led all three channels. Under her leadership, Channel 4 was named Channel of the Year at the 2014 Edinburgh International Television Festival and Broadcast magazine's Channel of the Year in 2016. Early life Hunt was born in Sydney, Australia, and lived in Pittsburgh and Crete before moving permanently to London at age 15. Hunt's father John was Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the London Business School. Her sister is innovator and former Government policy advisor Kristina Murrin. Her brother Simon Hunt served as CEO of William Grant & Sons from 2016 to 2020. Hunt was educated at the independent Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, West London, followed by St John's College at the University of Cambridge, where she read English. Career Hunt joined the BBC in 1989 as a researcher, working on the BBC's Breakfast News. She worked on Newsnight and Panorama, subsequently becoming editor of the BBC's One O'Clock News and, in 1999, the Six O'Clock News. She led outside broadcast teams to cover the handover of Hong Kong to China and the first multiracial elections in South Africa. Hunt became BBC Birmingham's Executive Producer for Daytime in 2002, being promoted to Senior Commissioning Executive for Daytime in 2003 and then Controller of BBC Daytime and Early Peak with responsibility for programming across both BBC One and BBC Two between 9am and 7pm. In this role, she commissioned Great British Menu, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, The Heirhunters, and Missing. Hunt left the BBC for eight months in 2007, to replace Dan Chambers as Controller of Programmes for Five, and hired Natasha Kaplinsky from the BBC shortly afterwards. At Five, she commissioned Cowboy Builders, Extreme Fishing with Robson Green, Police Interceptors, Breaking into Tesco and Britain's Best Home. On 3 December 2007, it was announced that she would be returning to the BBC to take up the vacant post of Controller of BBC One in early 2008, replacing the resigning Peter Fincham following criticism over the handling of A Year with the Queen.