Education
Ben Hammersley is the eldest of three children and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, from which he dropped out after a year.
Ben Hammersley is the eldest of three children and was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, from which he dropped out after a year.
Hammersley previously worked as an internet reporter for The Times. Until 2013, he was the United Kingdom Prime Minister"s Ambassador to East London Technical City. In August 2011 he was made a fellow of the UNAOC. He is a judge of the Lovie Awards.
Multimedia reporting and broadcasting Hammersley has twice presented on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s documentary strand Analysis, covering Facebook in November 2007, and personal genetic testing in December 2008.
In 2014, he presented a six-part British Broadcasting Corporation World News series on cybercrimes.
In 2013, he became a fellow of the Robert Schuman School for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Innovator-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative and Social Technologies at Goldsmiths, University of London, Editor at Large of Conde Nast"s Wired United Kingdom magazine, a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on Media Freedom, and a non-resident fellow of the Brookings Institution. Hammersley is a member of the Transatlantic Network 2020., and a trustee of the London chapter of the Awesome Foundation.