Kati Whitaker

 

After a degree in PPE from Oxford and training as a lawyer Kati moved into broadcasting where she has worked in-house for the BBC and through her own production company for more than 30 years.
In recent years she has reported for Radio 4 programmes such as The World Tonight from South Sudan, Mali, Liberia, Kosovo and Ethiopia. Recent programmes include documentaries about Cuba, a ten part series for Radio 4 on diplomacy, the future of the Euro, McCarthyism and the spiritual challenges of mental health and Alzheimer’s. She has won numerous awards including a Sony shortlist and One World Radio Award for her documentary on Rwandan widows. She was formerly a TV reporter for BBC Breakfast, Channel Four News and The Medical Channel, and she won the Silver Award for her work as presenter of BBC Radio 4’s disabilities programme, ‘Does He Take Sugar?’
Kati has been carrying out media, presentational and public speaking training sessions and workshops for 15 years . She has also carried out one to one presentational training with corporate individuals at senior managerial and CEO level.