Brian Alexander

Brian Alexander (born 1957) is a media and public affairs adviser. He is responsible for media, investor and community communications for UK Oil and Gas PLC. Previously his chief client was Sepp Blatter and football world governing body FIFA.

After a long career in newspaper journalism, Alexander began presenting programmes for the BBC in 1996, beginning with The Back Page on Five Live before moving on to present the sports bulletins on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

He also has television experience. He presented "The Lion's Den" on BBC 1 in March 1999, interviewing previous England football managers Bobby Robson, Graham Taylor, Terry Venables and Glenn Hoddle prior to Kevin Keegan's first match in charge.

After hosting both shows for two years, Alexander took over Late Night Live, making the transition from sport to news and current affairs. He presented "Weekend Breakfast" in late 2001 on BBC Radio Five Live until 2006.

He was previously best known as a British broadcaster who was a presenter on BBC Radio Five Live in the UK and on the BBC World Service until January 2011 when he made the move into communications and public relations. He hosted the Radio Five programmes Late Night Live and Weekend Breakfast and launched and presented Sportsweek on the same network. He also presented the BBC's Sport Specials. His stand-out extended interviews included Jonny Wilkinson, Sepp Blatter, Joey Barton, Thaksin Shinawatra, while he also researched and presented investigations into right-wing football violence in eastern Europe, corruption in Italian football, gambling in tennis and the young African boys who are abandoned in Europe after being conned by agents.