Misha Glenny

Misha Glenny is an award-winning journalist and expert in geo-politics and cyber-security, who brings his extensive experience and insights on organized crime, global conflicts, and cyber threats to his engaging contributions. This is done through TV, radio, and books, including the acclaimed "McMafia" and "DarkMarket."

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Misha is an award-winning journalist who made a name for himself as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent covering the 1989 revolutions and the wars in the former Yugoslavia.

An expert in geo-politics and cyber-security, Misha is currently the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (one of Central Europe’s leading advanced research bodies.)

A regular contributor on TV and radio, Misha has a Sony Gold Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting and is also a winner of BT’s Information Security Journalist of The Year. Misha’s new 5-part series on the global race for control of rare earth metals will air on BBC Radio 4 this year.

His book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime and DarkMarket: How Hackers Became the New Mafia were shortlisted for several prizes, and McMafia has been adapted in a joint production between AMC (in the US) and the BBC into a major television series that has recently been commissioned for a second season.