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Creative CO/Content/Strategy/Innovation/Media @ Dentsu • Award-winning journalist (Washington Post, Time, BBC, Independent etc) • Presenter & speaker • TV writer/format development/presenter (Amazon Prime, Channel 4, Discovery, BBC), Radio, Author (books in 29 countries) • Hollywood screenwriter • Speaker • Globally published nonfiction authorBOOKS: OUT NOW: My latest book, history/investigative/geopolitics memoir "WE ARE ALL TARGETS: How renegade hackers invented cyber war and unleashed and age of global chaos" is published by Hachette USA & Silvertail. It's been called "Cyber war, from the bottom up... Hunter S Thompson meets Mr Robot" by Joshua Huminski in the Diplomatic Courier. Kay Burley on Sky News called it "a Netflix series in the making". John Sweeney called it “extraordinary, groundbreaking, terrifying.” Peter Pomerantsev called it, “An unputdownable travelogue to the internet’s darkest trenches”.TV WORK INCLUDES: Amazon Prime, LIVE ITALIAN (2023, writer/format development), BBC Storyville, ARMS DEALER: THE NOTORIOUS MR BOUT (2015, writer/presenter/VO), Discovery Channel MERCENARIES (2014, development/writer/presenter)​, Channel 4, SACRED WEEDS (2000, format development/presenter). RADIO: BBC 1FM, 5Live, BBC World, 2 x Sony Awards for BBC Sunday Surgery/1Life'OUTLAWS INC.'​, non-fiction UK #6 WHSmith bestseller on int'l smuggling. "Superlative," - Damien Lewis, BBC. Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury (USA), Ullstein (Germany/Austria), Einaudi (Italy), Tammi (Finland), 29 languages/Reader's Digest pick. "Riveting"​ – John Sweeney, Literary Review. "Fascinating"​ – Washington Post. "Thrilling yet disturbing journey through the global underworld"​ – Baltimore Sun. "We await the Hollywood take"​ – ABC News. "Amazing"​ – Fox News. "It's James Bond meets Jason Bourne, only it's happening, and it's happening now"​ – America Today. “A fascinating tale... for all our efforts to regulate society, there will always be those who thrive by finding ways to use, abuse, and ignore the rules.” – Mark Galeotti. "An explosive read, full of heart-thumping excitement and brilliant detective work which shines a light into the darkest corners of the world. All the more terrifying for being true" – Sean Rayment, Sunday Telegraph.Passions include: Innovation & tech, virology, palaeontology, cybersecurity, art, music (guitar/bass), global security, languages, Deep Time, astro, psychology, neurodiversity

Listed skills include Editing, Social Media, Broadcast, Investigative Reporting, and 28 others.

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  Founder

  The Thought Leadership Council

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