Ted Oakes

Ted Oakes is a Canadian-born filmmaker and biologist who worked at the BBC Natural History Unit for 20 years. He founded Oak Island Films in 2017 and has been managing director since. He has collaborated with BBC, TVO, Smithsonian Channel, Discovery Channel and Merit Motion Pictures.

Education
Oakes completed his MSc. in biology, at Queen's University, Canada in 1989 and a PhD. in zoology at Oxford University, UK in 1996

Honours

 * Front Cover Radio Times for Operation Snow Tiger 2013, BBC2/Discovery
 * 2021 Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Writing career

 * 2003 Monsters We Met — BBC Books
 * 2009 Life — BBC Books

Mentoring
Oakes has been a mentor for Wildscreen since 2023 and he has mentored Youth Ambassadors through the Ocean Pathways placement programs at Ocean Wise since 2021.