Video EDUCA Masterclass

Adam is a media executive and documentary film maker with international experience in television, print, new media and strategic communications. Adam has worked in a senior role at the BBC, in the independent production sector and has served at board level in a large multinational media group.

After reading English at Cambridge, Adam took a post graduate diploma in Journalism at Cardiff University. He then joined the BBC on the prestigious News Trainee Scheme. He worked as a journalist, producer and executive producer on Panorama, The Money Programme and other high profile shows. Adam led BBC filming teams on five continents often in hazardous conflict zones, politically difficult or challenging territories such as Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the Arctic Circle and the jungles of central Africa.

After leaving the BBC, Adam became part of the senior team at Tinopolis as it grew to be one of the UK’s leading independent production companies. He has also served as a non-executive director of the Aga Khan’s Nation Media Group; is a trustee of the global contemporary art prize Artes Mundi; and is the curator of the world’s leading conference on video in education, Video EDUCA  Adam is the only external film producer ever to have worked inside the UK Special Forces. He advises several international organisations on communications and is the co-founder of a technology start-up specialising in social knowledge management.

Outside work Adam spends as much time as he can at his home in Zanzibar where he manages a local football team and keeps a herd of goats.