16 Facts About Katya Adler

Michal Katya Adler was born on 3 May 1972 and is a British journalist.

Katya Adler has been the BBC's Europe editor since 2014.

Katya Adler attended the independent, fee-paying South Hampstead High School.

Katya Adler studied German and Italian at the University of Bristol.

Katya Adler began working as a correspondent for Austrian national public broadcaster ORF in late 1995, reporting locally and then internationally from Kosovo, Eastern Europe and across Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Katya Adler joined the BBC in Vienna in 1998, reporting on Austrian and Central European affairs.

Katya Adler admitted in an interview in 2019 that she had lied about being able to speak Spanish to get the Madrid correspondent job.

Katya Adler later learned the language by listening to Spanish political radio and Mexican soap operas.

From December 2006 Katya Adler was the BBC's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem but reporting around the region from Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Libya.

Katya Adler has presented a number of one-hour documentaries, such as Mexico's Drug Wars for BBC2.

Katya Adler's appointment was controversial because her LinkedIn profile stated that for 15 years she had regularly facilitated conferences for a number of clients including one for the European Union.

In early February 2017, the BBC broadcast a documentary by Katya Adler titled After Brexit: the Battle for Europe in which she examined the mounting challenges facing the European Union over the next few years.

In June 2017 Katya Adler became one of the four presenters of Brexitcast, a BBC podcast covering Brexit.

The BBC Editorial Complaint Unit ruled that although Katya Adler backed up her opinion with detailed evidence and was entitled to state it, her use of the word "delusional" broke the guidelines' licence for "professional judgements, rooted in evidence".

Katya Adler was awarded the Charles Wheeler award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism in 2019.

Katya Adler has been awarded Broadcast Journalist of the Year 2018 at the PSA, Political Studies Association; Broadcast Journalist of the Year 2019 jointly with Laura Kuenssberg by the London Press Club; Listeners Choice Award at British Podcast awards 2019 for the Brexitcast podcast.