Jeremy Bowen

Jeremy Bowen is the international editor of BBC News. He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1984 and became a foreign correspondent in 1987. Bowen has reported on most of the major international stories since then, including the withdrawal of the USSR from Afghanistan in 1989; the 1991 Gulf war, which he reported from Baghdad; the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994; all the wars of the former Yugoslavia; more than 30 years of conflict throughout the Middle East, from the first intifada to the current war in Gaza; 9/11, the US response, and the rise of radical jihadism; and the Arab uprisings of 2011 and the years of turmoil that followed. In recent years, he has done a lot of reporting from Ukraine and the Middle East.

Bowen has won many accolades, including Royal Television Society, BAFTA, Emmy, Peabody, and Bayeux-Calvados awards. He has written four books, the latest of which, The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History, is a Sunday Times bestseller.