Hamish Mykura will serve as the London head of global development for the National Geographic Channel (DStv 260) and will oversee all editorial development and production for NGCI and provide supervision for the portfolio of NGCI's portfolio of channels such as Nat Geo Wild also seen in South Africa.
''Expanding our development presence in the United Kingdom is key to our strategy of reaching out to the production community globally and forming more partnerships to produce the best programming for our channels,'' says David Lyle, CEO of the National Geographic Channels US and global programming in a statement. ''Hamish Mykura is the perfect person to be leading this charge for us in the United Kingdom.''
''I've got big ambitions to make these channels more popular than ever,'' says Hamish Mykura in the same press release.
