Dame Pippa Harris DBE

Dame Pippa Harris DBE

Pippa Harris is an Oscar nominated, BAFTA award-winning, film and television producer, executive producer and drama commissioner. She has been closely involved with BAFTA for over 10 years and joined the Board of Trustees as Deputy Chair of the Film Committee in 2011. She was made Chair of the Film Committee in 2015, and Chair of the Academy in 2018.

Pippa has actively supported BAFTA’s year-round programme of learning and new talent initiatives including the BAFTA Scholarships programme, BAFTA Breakthrough and BAFTA Elevate. Harris also chaired BAFTA’s recent taskforce examining sexual harassment and bullying in the industry. She has been a long-time supporter of greater diversity on and off screen and the need for gender parity in senior production roles.

Pippa established Neal Street Productions in 2003 alongside Sam Mendes and Caro Newling. The company’s recent work includes the hugely successful The Lehman Trilogy for the National Theatre, as well as the multi-award winning First World War movie, 1917, which Pippa produced. She also produced Starter for Ten, executive produced Things We Lost in the Fire, Away We Go and the Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road, as well as the feature documentary, We Are Many.