Nik Gowing

Main Presenter, BBC World , UK

In February 1996, Nik Gowing became a main presenter for the BBC's international television news channel BBC World, which currently has a distribution of 285million and weekly audience of 76 million.

He is currently a main presenter on the premium news analysis programme “World News Today with Nik Gowing” as well as the channel’s World Debates. He is also a regular presenter of BBC's Dateline London.

From 1996 to 2000 Nik was the principal anchor for the 90 minute weekday news programme The World Today and its predecessor News Desk. He has been a founding presenter of BBC's Europe Direct and a guest anchor on both the BBC's HARDtalk and the BBC's Simpson's World.

Nik's appointment draws both on his extensive reporting experience over three decades in diplomacy, defence and international security, plus his extensive presentation and chairing skills.

As a principal programme anchor he has often lead presentation of continuous 24-hour/7-day week coverage of major crises. This has included 9-11, the death of Princess Diana, the Asian Tsunami, the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo and many other major international events.

He has been a fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government, served for six years a member of the council of the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) He is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Reuter Institute of the Department of Politics at Oxford University, and is also a member of the executive council of the Royal United Service Institute and the councils of the Ditchley Foundation and Overseas Development Institute.