Live ChatAlex is a multiple award-winning news journalist and editorial leader, with media industry and third sector experience of strategic and crisis communications and project management. As a News Editor, she brings daily news and current affairs reporting to millions of BBC users around the world. Alex has considerable experience of covering frontline conflict and of working alongside the military all over the world. She led the re-launch of the BBC’s specialist defence and security unit after the Iraq War, and has been on numerous tours of Libya, the Balkans and Kosovo, Israel and the Middle East, throughout Afghanistan, and as an embedded journalist with the British Armed Forces in Iraq.
She currently sits on the BBC’s News2020 Working Group, which is responsible for communicating the biggest change and inclusion programme of the last decade in News. She is an experienced industry mentor through the charity Women In Journalism, and a member of both the BBC’s senior mentoring network and its Leadership Support Group, which helps to develop current and emerging leaders in the media.
Alex’s governance and third sector background is broad. Since 2017, she has served as a board trustee of NAPAC, a national charity which supports childhood abuse survivors. She is also a member of Inspiring Governance, which connects governors and trustees with schools in England, and has previously worked for Amnesty International, and as a press officer for Christian Aid.
Alex speaks four foreign languages, has taught in the lycée system in the French West Indies and has an MA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University. She parents a child with autism, enjoys skiing, sketching and painting portraits in her spare time.