Mark Blank-Settle joined BBC in 1994, doing a range of jobs from reporter to producer to presenter to editor. After that he went to work for BBC Westminster on Today in Parliament before heading to Look East in Norwich where he edited and produced the weekly political programme The East at Westminster. In 2000 he went back to Westminster to be a reporter for the Regional Political Unit, serving the BBC’s local and regional radio and TV stations and in 2003 went to Radio 4 to work for The World at One stable of programmes as producer/editor.
He joined the BBC Academy in 2010, where his first role was giving training around the future impact of smartphones, before designing and delivering smartphone training.