David Prosser is Head of Programmes for Asia at the BBC World Service Trust, the BBC’s international development charity.  

David has produced around 50 documentaries and over 100 hours of live programming for BBC Radio, winning two Sony Gold Awards along the way. He co-founded All Out Productions in 1994 and built it up into one of Britain’s most successful production companies, serving as joint managing director until 2001. He joined the BBC World Service Trust in 2003.

David has been involved in a number of media initiatives designed to improve the lives of people throughout Asia and the Pacific. He is also currently working in Rwanda.  

David led the team that established BBC Janala, which makes innovative use of mobile phones - alongside television, print and web - to deliver affordable English learning in Bangladesh. It is part of English in Action, a UK Department for International Development-funded initiative, which aims to improve the lives of 25 million people by 2017.

The BBC Janala mobile learning service launched at the end of 2009 and within 12 weeks over 1 million English lessons had been accessed. The latest innovation features lessons and audio quizzes to support a popular TV drama shot between Bangladesh and the UK – the first time that TV drama has been combined with mobile learning in this way.

David was Executive Producer on BBC Bangladesh Sanglap, a weekly debate programme, that brought voters face-to-face with politicians and reached a TV and radio audience of 25 million. Sanglap took to the rural waterways of Bangladesh in 2007, as part of a BBC initiative on climate change, picking up a Sony Gold Award.