James Silver

Literary Agent: Eugenie Furniss

James Silver is a journalist, author and ghostwriter. He’s the author of Upscale (Tech Nation, 2018) – a series of in-depth interviews with 30 leading UK tech entrepreneurs and investors – the co-author of Going Indie: Everything You Need to Know About Publishing Your Own Book (Whitefox, 2026), and has ghostwritten numerous books on business, technology and productivity including a Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller.

James’ career began at the BBC where he was a staff producer at BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4. In 2000, he was part of the team that won a Sony Gold Award for News. He went on to become a reporter, making and presenting over 50 editions of The 5 Live Report and Radio 4’s The Report, as well as editions of Profile, File on 4, and standalone documentaries for Radio 4, BBC World Service and American Radio Works.

After leaving the BBC, he regularly wrote the Monday media interview in The Guardian, also writing for The Observer, WIRED magazine, Total Politics, The Times, The Independent, The Evening Standard, Press Gazette, Media Week, TechCrunch, BBC News Online and SkyNews.com.

Over the course of his career, James has interviewed many big names spanning the worlds of technology, politics, business, media and the arts, including: Kofi Annan (former UN Secretary-General), Margrethe Vestager (Executive VP of the European Commission), Boris Johnson, Sir Richard Branson, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (EasyJet), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Niklas Zennstrom (Skype), Will Shu (Deliveroo), Norman Mailer, Clive James, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh, Christiane Amanpour (CNN), Carl Bernstein (Washington Post), Piers Morgan and Mark Thompson (former BBC Director-General and New York Times CEO).

James has also worked as an in-house ghostwriter with some of Europe’s leading technology venture capital firms, including Index Ventures, and as staff writer and speechwriter to the CEO at Techstars, the world’s most active early stage tech investor.