Interviews, commentary, podcasts and panels.
Rahim Hirji is an author, advisor and speaker on how AI is reshaping work, leadership and the talent pipeline. In 2026 he made four BBC appearances in six weeks, including the BBC World Service. He is available for interviews, expert commentary, podcasts and panel appearances, in print, broadcast and online.
From the Main Stage at the CIPD Festival of Work to the BBC studio, at home on the stage, the panel and the camera.
Four BBC appearances in six weeks in 2026, including the BBC World Service.
Additional coverage across The Sun, Time Out, Startups Magazine, The Ismaili, and broadcast and print in the UK, the Middle East, China and Asia-Pacific.
Keynotes and panels, broadcast and studio, in the UK and internationally.
Rahim's own columns and essays live on Research. This is what others have said and where he has appeared.
“A reminder that success is not about what you know today, it is about your capacity to keep learning forever.”
Read the review →A twenty-five-year data and audience-insight veteran who set out to argue with the book, and ended up recommending it.
Read the review →Four BBC appearances in six weeks in 2026, including the BBC World Service, plus Bloomberg and international broadcast and press.
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Previously: columnist, The Telegraph · columnist, Time Out
Long-form conversations on the ideas behind SuperSkills, AI and the future of work.
On Inside Learning with Learnovate: twenty years inside learning technology, the most-requested title at the London Book Fair, and the skills that outlast the tools.
More conversations with Nothing Ventured (Aarish Shah), AI for Business Leaders (John Emmerson), The Near Futurist (Guy Clapperton), Solutionary Voices (Zoe Weil) and Careers of the Future.
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Education Futureswith Svenia Busson
Become a Global Leaderwith Victoria Rennoldson
How AI is changing day-to-day work, why transformation efforts fail, and what leaders should do differently.
How AI affects judgement, decision-making and executive oversight when the machine is always in the room.
Why automating entry-level work creates long-term leadership risk, and how to redesign apprenticeship for the AI era.
Which human skills become more valuable as automation spreads, and how organisations build them on purpose.
How AI changes what students need to learn, and what schools, universities and employers should do next.
Is AI going to replace my job? The honest answer is more interesting than the reassuring one.
On where judgement sits once the machines are capable, synthetic seniority and the missing rungs, and why adoption measures how much you have handed over rather than whether you got any better.
Rahim Hirji is a London-based author, advisor and speaker on AI, work and human capability. He works with boards and executive teams on work redesign, decision quality and the talent pipeline, drawing on research across more than 200 organisations in 30 countries.
He is the author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI (Kogan Page, 2026), the most-requested title at the London Book Fair, and founder of The SuperSkills Intelligence Company. His career includes co-founding EtonX (acquired by Eton College) and leading international growth at Quizlet across 60+ countries. He writes Box of Amazing, a weekly newsletter on AI and the future of work, now in its tenth year with 25,000+ subscribers.
Available on request: high-resolution headshot, book cover image, and a one-page media kit PDF. Request assets →
Yes. He has commented on AI and the future of work for the BBC, including the BBC World Service, with four appearances in six weeks in 2026. For interviews, podcasts and comment: rahim@thesuperskills.com. Responses same day where a deadline is named.
Where human judgement belongs as AI takes over tasks; synthetic seniority and what happens to career ladders; what leaders get wrong about AI readiness; and how organisations lose capability without noticing. He gives specific, quotable positions rather than balanced-on-both-sides comment.
BBC television and radio including the World Service, and podcasts including The Innovation Show with Aidan McCullen. His writing has appeared in CEOWORLD and other outlets, and he previously wrote columns for The Telegraph and Time Out.
Yes. Email with the deadline in the subject line and he will confirm quickly whether he can help. A press kit with bios at three lengths and headshots is on this page.
Available for interviews, podcasts, broadcast, panels and op-eds, in the UK and internationally.
