Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin

Konstantin Kisin, born Konstantin Vadimovich Kisin on 25 December 1982, is a Soviet-born British political commentator, author, and co-host of the Triggernometry podcast. He is also a former translator and stand-up comedian. He is the eldest of three children born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, and has Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, and Jewish ancestry, describing himself as "ethnically, about 1/4 Jewish" and as "a not-very-practicing Orthodox Christian." At the age of 11 he was sent alone to the United Kingdom to attend Clifton College boarding school, where he was bullied for being a foreigner and not speaking English, and he later attended Edinburgh University.

Kisin has worked as a Russian-English legal, financial, and video game translator and interpreter. Since April 2018 he has co-presented Triggernometry with Francis Foster, a YouTube channel and podcast whose primary format is the prerecorded interview; the show brands itself as holding "honest conversations with fascinating people" and has been described as "anti-woke" by The Times. Guests have included Nigel Farage, Jordan Peterson, Stephen Fry, Piers Morgan, and Benjamin Netanyahu. He has written for publications including Quillette, The Spectator, and The Daily Telegraph, and has appeared on the panel of the BBC programme Question Time.

In 2019 Kisin took his stand-up show Orwell That Ends Well to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to mixed reviews. In 2018 he made headlines when he refused to sign a "behavioural agreement" form to perform free of charge at a fundraising gig at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His 2023 speech at the Oxford Union in favour of the motion that "Woke Culture HAS Gone Too Far" went viral, and in March 2022 he appeared as a panellist on BBC Question Time following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, describing feeling shame for his birth country and discussing the bombardment his family in Ukraine was undergoing.