Gareth Mitchell

Gareth Mitchell is a Welsh technology journalist, lecturer and former broadcast engineer.

Mitchell was born Gareth James Mitchell in Eastleigh, England to a Welsh father. and was a member of the computer society at school as well as bell-ringing and organ playing at his local church

He joined the BBC during the mid-1990s, starting his career as a broadcast engineer. Mitchell eventually decided to trade climbing TV and radio transmitter towers for science and technology journalism. His first hosting role was for the youth science program, The Lab.

He presents on the BBC most notably as the host of Click (previously known as Digital Planet and Go Digital) a BBC radio programme broadcast worldwide on the BBC World Service with Bill Thompson.

He additionally writes for the Q & A section of the BBC branded Science Focus magazine and regularly hosts their podcast

He has lectured at Imperial College London since 1998 in broadcast and written journalism on the Science Communication and Science Media Production MScs

He also was the host of TEDx Imperial