“Her combination of cautious academic rigour and geek-like enthusiasm makes a very valuable contribution to the debate” – Financial Times
“Engaging and insightful” – The Guardian
Dr Aleks Krotoski is an award-winning international broadcaster, author and academic.
For the BBC and Channel 4, she has topped the ratings, won Emmy, BAFTA, Radio Academy, and Royal Society awards, and written and presented the landmark technology and social-science series for both radio – with BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human – and international television – with BBC World’s The Virtual Revolution.
For The Guardian, she has consistently led the iTunes charts with the Tech Weekly podcast (2007-2015), pioneered environmental and business reporting with The Biggest Story In The World (2015), and taken her hit weekly column from newspaper to acclaimed book (Guardian Faber, 2013). Her award-winning video series for The Guardian, “The Power of Privacy”, was produced in 2015 in 5 countries.
Aleks established Pillowfort Productions in 2015, an audio production company that finds human stories to help listeners make sense out of our complex world. She writes a column for BBC Science Magazine.
As host, writer, and producer, Aleks Krotoski’s broadcasting success, has mirrored her academic credentials. Dr Krotoski has held fellowships at University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics. In 2009, her PhD broke new ground, studying information flow and the spread of ideas across digital spaces. She received an Honourary Doctorate from the Open University in 2018.