The Baroness Freeman of Steventon | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 5 June 2024 Life peerage | |
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Born | Alexandra Lee Jessica Freeman March 1974 (age 50) Maryland, United States |
Nationality | British |
Political party | None (crossbencher) |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Alexandra Lee Jessica Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon (born March 1974) is a British science communicator, life peer, and former television producer. She has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2024.
Freeman was born in March 1974 in Maryland, United States.[1][2] She studied biological sciences at the University of Oxford, before remaining at the university to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in zoology.[3][4] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Butterflies as signal receivers" and was completed in 1998.[5] As a postgraduate, she was a member of Linacre College, Oxford and the Department of Zoology.[5]
From 2000 to 2016, Freeman worked for the BBC.[3] As a producer or director, she was involved in Walking with Beasts, Life in the Undergrowth, Bang Goes the Theory, Climate Change by Numbers and Trust Me, I'm a Doctor.[6]
In 2016, Freeman joined the University of Cambridge as executive director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Faculty of Mathematics.[7]
Freeman was recommended for appointment as a non-party-political life peer by the House of Lords Appointments Commission in May 2024.[1] She was created Baroness Freeman of Steventon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxfordshire, on 5 June 2024,[8] and was introduced to the House of Lords on 29 July as a crossbencher.[9][10]
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