Caroline Criado Perez
Writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner
Caroline Criado Perez is a British writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner. She wrote Invisible Women, a book on data bias and a world built for men.
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Born in Brazil
About Caroline Criado Perez
Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster and feminist campaigner who lives in London. She studied English language and literature at the University of Oxford, then behavioral and feminist economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her campaigns have included pushing for a woman to appear on Bank of England banknotes, asking Twitter to add a button for reporting abuse, and seeking the first statue of a woman in Parliament Square, which became the statue of Millicent Fawcett. She received the Liberty Human Rights Campaigner of the Year award in 2013 and was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2015. Do it Like a Woman, which came out in 2015, was her debut book. Invisible Women appeared in March 2019 and became a number one Sunday Times bestseller. It won the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.