Adam Gee

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Adam Jonathan Gee (born 12 September 1963 in London, England) is an award-winning London-based interactive media producer and commissioner.

In 2003 he moved to Channel 4 Television, London, where he is currently New Media Commissioner, Factual^[1]. He is a specialist in multiplatform interactive projects around TV, commissioning factual and documentary interactive media for Channel 4. His projects at the channel range from Big Art Project to Jamie’s School Dinners, from Breaking the News to Empire's Children. He was responsible for establishing Ideasfactory (renamed 4Talent in 2007), the Channel’s major creative industries talent development initiative.

Adam was formerly Director of Production of pioneering broadband production company Redbus CPD.

He has won over 50 international awards for his productions - including a British Academy Award (BAFTA), two Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards, a Design Council Millennium Award and the Grand Award at the New York International Film & Television Festival. Both Lost Generation and Breaking the News were nominated for TV BAFTAs in 2006 and Big Art Mob was nominated for three TV BAFTAs in 2008. Empire's Children won the London Design Festival People's Choice (Y Design) Award in 2007. Big Art Mob won the RTS Innovation Award for mobile in 2007 and the Media Guardian Innovation Award for community engagement in 2008.

Adam has served on BAFTA’s Television and Interactive Entertainment committees and is a voting member of the European Film Academy. He is on the board of ICA’s The Club (for creative entrepreneurs at the Institute of Contemporary Arts) and a trustee of the 24 Hour Museum.

Adam won the very first BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Award for comedy in 1998 (with Tim Wright and Rob Bevan) for a CD-ROM on creative thinking entitled 'MindGym'. He conceived the idea and co-wrote the script with interactive writer Tim Wright and writer/actor Ben Miller (Johnny English, etc.)

Adam served as an advisor on the UK government's Byron Review of Children and New Technology (child safety with regard to internet and video games) published in March 2008.

Adam is a Freeman of the City of London through the Worshipful Company of Cutlers.