Katya Adler

Award-winning journalist Katya Adler, the BBC’s Europe editor since 2014, makes the complexities of the world understandable and relatable. From headline-making interviews to her acclaimed documentary series Living Next Door to Putin, The Balkans: Europe’s Forgotten Frontier, and, most recently, Europe On the Edge, she brings geopolitical issues to life. Adler covers US-European relations, Russia-Ukraine, European defence, and Britain’s role on the European stage, as well as tracking power plays between the US, EU, China, and Russia.

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

Adler 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 Brussels in 2017.