Leesa Rumley

Head of Development

Since joining Windfall in 2001, Leesa has worked her way through the ranks as Producer, Director and Executive Producer on a diverse range of programmes including BBC Horizon – The Placebo Experiment, The Great Mountain Sheep Gather, and her dream project – The Wonder of Dogs on BBC2.

Leesa also produced the Grierson Award winning film Race and Intelligence: Science’s Last Taboo for Channel 4. 

As Head of Development, Leesa has guided the team through numerous successful commissions – from the major BBC2 series The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway, to the C4 historical adventure Mutiny to winning the competitive tender to produce the Eurovision 2023 Postcards – which reached 162 million viewers worldwide.