Alexandra Freeman, Baroness Freeman of Steventon

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.

Biography
Freeman was born in March 1974 in Maryland, United States. She studied biological sciences at the University of Oxford, before remaining at the university to undertake a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in zoology. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Butterflies as signal receivers" and was completed in 1998. As a postgraduate, she was a member of Linacre College, Oxford and the Department of Zoology.

From 2000 to 2016, Freeman worked for the BBC. 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.

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.

Freeman was recommended for appointment as a non-party-political life peer by the House of Lords Appointments Commission in May 2024. She was created Baroness Freeman of Steventon, of Abingdon in the County of Oxfordshire, on 5 June 2024, and will sit in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.