Dr Alex Connock is specialist in Artificial Intelligence and the Media business, who lectures and tutors St Hugh’s undergraduates on AI and General Management. He has written a trilogy of books spanning contemporary media – Media Management and Artificial Intelligence (2022) Media Management and Live Experience: Sports, Culture, Entertainment and Events (2024) and Entrepreneurship in Media and Entertainment (2025.) All are published with Routledge. He is also an international industry speaker and regularly works with global media companies on their relationship with AI.
Alex is also Senior Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, teaching AI, Marketing and Media Business courses at BA, MBA and Executive MBA level. He co-launched and ran Oxford postgraduate diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business from 2021-3.
He has a PhD in video optimisation for e-commerce and degrees from Oxford (PPE) Columbia (Journalism) and INSEAD (MBA).
Entrepreneurially, Alex has also created and grown multiple media companies and has been six times shortlisted as Entrepreneur of the Year.
