- Richard Sambrook
Richard Sambrook Richard Sambrook is the Director of the BBC’s Global News Division, responsible for leading the BBC’s overall international news strategy across radio, TV and new media. From 2001-2004, he was Director of BBC News, the worlds biggest broadcast news operation. During his time with the BBC, he has covered a wide range of news events from the collapse of the Berlin Wall to the Bosnian war to the UK general elections.
- Stephen Sackur
Stephen John Sackur (born January 9 1964 in Spilsby in Lincolnshire) is a British journalist working for the BBC. He is the regular presenter of HARDtalk, the current affairs interview programme on BBC World and BBC News 24.
- Nik Gowing
Nik Gowing (born 1951) is a British television journalist. Since 1996 he has been the senior presenter on the BBC's international news and current affairs channel, BBC World. A foreign affairs specialist and presenter at ITN from 1978, Gowing became Diplomatic Editor for the flagship "Channel 4 News" from 1989. During his time with the BBC, Gowing has since presented "The World Today" (1996 - 2000), "Europe Direct", "HARDtalk", …
- Daljit Dhaliwal
Daljit Dhaliwal was born in 1962 in London, United Kingdom, and is a British newsreader and television presenter. Dhaliwal is best known for presenting Wide Angle, which includes one-on-one interviews, and for her occasional newsreading work on BBC World News programs. Daljit has been working on and off for BBC World News since December 2005, mostly as substitute for Katty Kay. She has also been a presenter for ITN's World News and World Focus, CNN International, …
- Lyse Doucet
Lyse Doucet (born 24 December, 1958 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada) is a presenter and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World television. Occasionally she reports for BBC Radio 4 or BBC television news but is almost unknown to the domestic British audience. She is often deployed to cover special events such as the funeral of Yasser Arafat, reporting of the aftermath of the Tsunami from Tamil Nadu, India in 2004, …
- Frank Gardner
Frank Rolleston Gardner, OBE (born July 31 1961) is a British journalist. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent, a post he has held since 2002. Educated at Marlborough College, a boys' independent school in Wiltshire, England, and at the University of Exeter, Gardner cites a meeting with the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in his youth, which led to a life of fascination with the Arab world and a degree in the Arabic language from University of Exeter.
- John Hammond
John Hammond (born 1966) is an English weather forecaster for the BBC. He can be seen presenting the forecast on BBC News 24, BBC One, BBC World and BBC Radio. He is a main weather presenter on the Ten O'Clock News and on Radio Five Live.
- George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah (born November 22, 1955 in Sri Lanka) is a newsreader on BBC Television in the UK. He co-presents the Six O'Clock News with Natasha Kaplinsky. He has been the main presenter of BBC World's "World News Today" programme since its launch.
- Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid (b. 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling author. Rashid attended Malvern College, England, Government College Lahore, and Cambridge University. He serves as the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the "Far Eastern Economic Review" and the "Daily Telegraph". He also writes for the "Wall Street Journal", "The Nation", and academic journals.
- Mishal Husain
Mishal Husain (sometimes spelt "Mishal Hussein") (born 1973) is currently an anchor for the BBC's international news channel BBC World and national news bulletins. On BBC World, she presents the 1300-1600GMT slot on Mondays to Thursdays as well as some national news bulletins over the weekends and some One O'clock News bulletins on Fridays. She used to be a presenter on the BBC arts, media, entertainment and culture talk show "HARDtalk Extra".
- Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole (b. March 29, 1956 in Hereford) is a presenter for Al Jazeera English.
- David Lowe
David Lowe is a British composer, focusing primarily on music for television. His major work includes the distinctive themes for BBC News (including BBC News 24, BBC World, and many BBC regional news programmes). Other British programmes include Grand Designs on Channel 4 and the Channel 5 motoring programme 5th Gear. He has also created themes for the Al Arabiya Channel in Dubai, NDTV in India and TV2 in Norway.
- James Coomarasamy
James Coomarasamy has been the BBC World Service Washington Correspondent since February 2005. He covers events throughout the United States and North America. He began his career at the BBC in the following sequence *1991 hired as production assistant in the BBC Moscow bureau and he then freelanced in Moscow as a reporter / producer, * He then got an assignment as a producer for BBC World in London.
- Tom Brook
Tom Brook (born 1953) is a BBC World presenter often seen presenting "Talking Movies". Tom Brook was born in London, went to school in Hertfordshire and London, then to Cambridge University where he graduated with a degree in Economics. He joined the BBC in 1976 as a trainee. He's been reporting on the US film industry for the BBC ever since 1985. From 1985 to 1998 he was the US correspondent for the BBC flagship cinema show broadcast in the UK on BBC One.
- David Eades
David Eades is a journalist and newsreader working for BBC News. He presents the news between 12:00 - 16:00 on BBC World. He previously has been a Northern Ireland correspondent for the BBC, and presented "The World Today". He has presented the evening slot on BBC News 24 most weekdays alongside Carrie Gracie or Liz Pike. David was also a Sports News Correspondent and has reported on many other major news events. He has also presented weekend editions of Breakfast.
- Hossein Derakhshan
Hossein Derakhshan, also known as Hoder, is an Iranian journalist and weblogger based in Toronto. His weblog, which is blocked in Iran by the government, is among the most-read weblogs in Persian. He is also credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran while getting funds from the Iranian regime. He is also seen going in and out of the Iranian embassy in Paris and London. and is called by many journalists as the father of Persian blogging.
- Spencer Kelly
Spencer Kelly (real name Spencer Bignell) is presenter of the BBC's technology programme "Click", broadcast worldwide on BBC World and BBC News 24 in the UK. He studied Computer Science at the University of Cambridge for three years. It was as a student that Kelly first became involved in broadcasting and he went on to run Cambridge University Radio. After graduating he got a job as a travel presenter on the local radio station for Portsmouth and Southampton, …
- Declan Curry
Declan Curry an Irish journalist who has worked for BBC News 24 since the channel's inception in 1997. He has also worked for BBC World, ABC News, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Radio 4, and LBC. Curry is best known for his reporting of the happenings in the London Stock Exchange and other British economic news. Curry was born and raised in Strabane, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland; he moved to London to study chemistry at Imperial College.
- Kate Russell
Kate Russell is a well-established young technology reporter who first appeared on an old BSkyB channel called The Computer Channel, which was later renamed to .tv. She used to present shows called Chips With Everything (CWE) and Which On-air. CWE was a panel based show where viewers would get in touch regarding their computer problems in the hope that Kate's expert guests would be able to help.
- Tanya Beckett
Tanya Beckett is a BBC News presenter, currently co-anchoring the daily World Business Report programme on BBC World and BBC News 24. Tanya was educated at Redland High School for Girls, an independent school in Bristol, Avon, and later studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge graduating with a degree in Metallurgy and gaining a Blue in fencing.
- Rob Bonnet
Rob Bonnet (born Robert Bonet on September 27 1952) is a BBC television journalist, presenting sport bulletins on BBC News services and Extratime, an interview programme on BBC World and BBC News 24. He previously presented the sport news on BBC Breakfast.
- Michael Peschardt
Michael Peschardt is a journalist and broadcaster for BBC News. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood and the University of Oxford. He is the BBC's Sydney correspondent, covering a range of stories from Australia and South East Asia for the BBC's UK-based TV and Radio services, including BBC Radio 4 and BBC News 24 as well as the international channel BBC World. Peschardt also hosts BBC World's programme Peschardt's People, …
- Mike Embley
Mike Embley is a presenter on BBC World, an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC. He began his career in broadcasting in 1983, working for BBC Wales and then the BBC programme Watchdog, before moving to "Public Eye" in 1989. Whilst with the programme, he was the first British reporter to reach San Francisco to report on the earthquake that struck there in 1989 for BBC News.
- Jane Hill
Jane Hill is a British journalist working for the BBC. She is one of the main presenters of rolling news channel BBC News 24 and a regular relief-anchor for BBC One O'Clock News and BBC Six O'Clock News, plus occasionally presents weekend editions. After studying Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, Hill worked at the Democratic National Headquarters in Washington DC before joining the BBC on a full-time basis at the end of 1991.
- Alastair Yates
Alastair Yates is a British journalist with the BBC, working on BBC World and BBC News 24. Born and brought up in Burton upon Trent, Yates was educated at the former Burton Grammar School. Before deciding on journalism as a career Yates was a DJ and managed pop and folk groups. Yates began his journalism career with local BBC radio stations in Derby, Leicester, and Birmingham. He made his debut TV appearance reporting for BBC "Midlands Today" in Birmingham in 1978, …
- Philip Hayton
Philip Hayton was born in Yorkshire and was educated at Fyling Hall School, an Independent school near Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire in Northern England. Hayton had a distinguished 37 year career at the BBC, having been one of the first presenters of BBC Look North in Leeds before moving on to present the One O'Clock News nationally. Following this, he left national news to become main presenter of BBC North West Tonight, …
- Manisha Tank
Manisha Tank (born 10 March 1976) presents "World Business Report" on BBC World. She graduated from Oxford University in 1997 where she studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She was first posted to New York in 1999 and reported from the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. After the thrills of the city, she decided to return to London to report on the EU markets and continued on presenting business news bulletins between London and New York.
- Paul Rieckhoff
Paul Rieckhoff founded and is Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). A non-partisan non-profit founded in 2004 with tens of thousands of members in all 50 US states, IAVA is America’s first and largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans' group. Honored by "Esquire" as one of "America’s Best and Brightest" in 2004, Rieckhoff has appeared on hundreds of radio and television programs.
- Akhtar Khan
Akhtar Khan is a BBC World presenter often seen presenting Fast Track. He also makes appearances on BBC Asian Network and BBC News 24.
- Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott — editor of The Economist from 1993 to 2006 — will deliver an address titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Making the Case for Globalisation” at 5 p.m. on September 27 in McClelland Hall's Berger Auditorium, with a reception to follow. Reservations are required for this free event: events@eller.arizona.edu .
- Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings is a New Zealander who is working as a television journalist for BBC World. She joined the network as producer in 1999, just before being promoted to senior producer in 2000, and worked on Asia Today and HARDtalk. She kept on reporting on the September 11, 2001 attacks, followed by the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In 2003, she became BBC World's presenter, covering such events as the 2004 Tsunami, 2005 London bombings, and the death of Pope John Paul II.
- Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis is a news presenter and journalist on BBC World, the BBC's international news and current affairs channel. Since 2007, she has presented Friday bulletins of The World Today.
- Adrian Finighan
Adrian Finighan is a British journalist, working as a presenter and reporter for the television channel CNN International (CNNi). He is based in London and works on programmes including "Business International" and "CNN World News", also regularly covering for Max Foster on "CNN Today". Finighan's interest in broadcast news journalism began in his early teens.
- Aaron Heslehurst
Aaron Heslehurst (b. 1967 -) is a BBC World presenter often seen presenting World Business Report. He also presents a segment on Fast Track called Flight Track, covering aviation news.
- Dharshini David
Dharshini David, economist and news presenter, was born and raised in London, England to parents originally from Sri Lanka. David joined the BBC network in 2000 as a economics and business reporter working on many BBC TV and radio news programmes. She can be seen presenting on "BBC News 24" in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere on its international counterpart "BBC World". She has also presented for the BBC's current affairs series "Panorama", …
- Peter Dobbie
Peter Dobbie is a news presenter on the BBC's 24 hour international news channel, BBC World. Dobbie also presented news on BBC World's sister channel, BBC News 24 until April 2006, when he lost his 10:30pm-1am late-evening slot. Dobbie, originally from the west of Scotland, began his television career working for local channels in England. He has worked across many of BBC media outlets aside from BBC World and News 24. These have included "Breakfast" on BBC One, …
- Carol Kirkwood
Carol Kirkwood (born 29 May), is a Scottish weather presenter for the BBC. Born in Morar, Inverness-shire, Kirkwood gained a BA in commerce from Napier University in Edinburgh. Kirkwood joined the BBC Weather centre in April 1998. She regularly appears on BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four. She is one of the main weather presenters on BBC Breakfast, simulcast by both channels until 08:30 weekdays, …
- Peter Gibbs
Peter Gibbs is a BBC Weather forecaster, born in Sunderland, who appears regularly on BBC One, BBC News 24, BBC World and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four. He is a main weather presenter on the BBC Six O'Clock News, and was previously a main weather presenter on the BBC One O'Clock News. Peter Gibbs graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979 with an Honours degree in Physics and Geography.
- Nima Abu-Wardeh
Nima Abu-Wardeh is the presenter of BBC World's weekly financial programme, Middle East Business Report. She is of Arabian descent and studied in London. She worked for Financial Times Television, after that she worked for the Arab News Network, and al-Jazeera's London office.
- Isobel Lang
Isobel Lang joined Sky News after 12 years at the BBC Weather Centre where she broadcast the weather for the 1,6 and 10 O'clock news, News 24, BBC World as well as Radio 1, 2 and 4. Isobel has also co-presented the Essential Guide to Weather, Painting the Weather and The Weather Show.