Brent Hansen

Brent Hansen was a director of iconic 80s music show Radio With Pictures for four years.

In 1987, he joined MTV and climbed up the ranks to be President and Chief Executive MTV Europe followed by President of Creative and Editor-in-Chief MTV International. During this time, he was responsible for overseeing creative and editorial endeavours for 89 international channels as well as branding, creative, music, programming and editorial output for all global initiatives.

Brent has been instrumental in backing the music careers of Kiwis in the UK and was a major supporter of the 2000 retrospective exhibition of New Zealand modernist artist, Len Lye, at the celebrated Pompidou Centre in Paris and broadcast his avant-garde films across the MTV network.