Mohit took on his expanded role as the Director of Speech in May 2022. He was appointed as the Controller of Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra in July 2019. Before becoming Controller, Mohit Bakaya was the Commissioning Editor for Factual at BBC Radio 4 since 2008. He commissioned and led on current affairs, politics, history, science, natural history and religion programming across the BBC Radio 4 schedule.

Mohit joined the BBC in 1993 as a production trainee and worked on the BBC Radio 4's arts programme, Front Row, before becoming editor of Night Waves on BBC Radio 3