Katya Adler

Award-winning journalist Katya Adler, the BBC’s Europe editor since 2014, is known for her ability to make the complexities of the world we live in understandable and relatable. From her recent headline-making interviews with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s President Emmanuel Macron to her acclaimed Living Next Door to Putin and The Balkans – The Forgotten Frontier documentary series, she brings geopolitical issues to life, covering Russia-Ukraine, the Middle East in crisis, and Britain’s role on the European and world stage, as well as tracking power plays between the US, EU, China, and Russia.

Adler co-presented the award- winning Brexitcast podcast. She recently launched and hosted The Global Story podcast on the BBC and has regularly appeared as a presenter of the Today programme on Radio 4, news bulletins on BBC1, and televised episodes of the BBC Proms Festival. She previously spent many years as a frontline war reporter, mainly in the Middle East.

She holds honorary doctorates from Bristol university and the University of London, and was the 2019 recipient of the British Journalism Review and University of Westminster’s Charles Wheeler award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism. She was named joint Broadcast Journalist of the Year by the London Press Club in 2019, Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the 2018 Political Society Awards, and one of Politico’s most influential people in 2017.