Benjamin Alexander

Benjamin Alexander (born 8 May 1983) is a British-born Jamaican former disc jockey and the first alpine skier to represent Jamaica in the Olympics.

Early life Benjamin Alexander was born in Wellingborough, England to a Jamaican father, a bus driver, and British mother in 1983. Having won a government scholarship, he was educated at Wellingborough School, a private school in Northamptonshire. He began studying physics at Imperial College, London before transferring to University College London to study electrical engineering , graduating in 2006. After university he worked in wealth management in Hong Kong. —eventually performing at Burning Man starting in 2011. By 2015, he was hosting a radio show as well as a weekly party in Ibiza, Spain while co-founding the award-winning music festival, Further Future. Alexander retired from DJing in 2018 but kept his board seat with the charity Robot Heart, a well-known Burning Man camp.

Skiing career In 2016, Alexander was invited to DJ a ski trip in Whistler, British Columbia, where he had his first mountain lesson. In preparation of the 2022 games, Alexander maintained weekly mentorship calls with Dudley Stokes, the former Jamaican Olympic bobsledder, since the beginning of 2020.