Nik Gowing
BBC World

Since February 1996 Nik Gowing has been a main programme anchor for the BBC's 24-hour international TV news and information channel BBC World, produced by BBC News. He is now a main presenter on the news programmes re-launched in April 2000.
From 1996 to March 2000 Nik was principal anchor for the ninety-minute premium weekday news programme 'The World Today', and its predecessor 'NewsDesk'. He has been a founding presenter of 'Europe Direct' and has been a guest anchor on both 'HardTalk' and 'Simpson's World'.
He has been a principal programme anchor for much of BBC World's extended, continuous 24-hour/7-day week coverage of major international crises like Kosovo in 1999. In the 2003 Iraq war he anchored BBC News coverage from near Central Command in Qatar. He was on air for six hours shortly after the twin towers were hit in New York City on 11 September 2001. He also anchors special location coverage of major international events like elections, and chairs BBC World Debates at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the annual Nobel Awards in Stockholm.
Before joining the BBC, Nik was a foreign affairs specialist and presenter at ITN for 18 years. From 1989-1996 he was Diplomatic Editor for the one-hour nightly news analysis programme Channel Four News from ITN in London. His reports were aired frequently by the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS, NBC's SuperChannel and CNN International. His reporting from Bosnia was part of the Channel Four News portfolio which won the BAFTA 'Best News Coverage' award in 1996.
Since 1978 Nik Gowing has reported from most of the main global conflicts. He was bureau chief in Rome (1979) and Warsaw (1980-83). He collected a BAFTA award for his exclusive coverage of martial law in Poland in 1981. From 1991 he reported extensively on war in the former Yugoslavia with particular emphasis on diplomacy and the politico-military.
Independently of his work for BBC News, Nik has developed a sought-after analytical expertise on the management of information in the new transparent environments of conflicts and emergencies.
In 1994 he was a resident fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in the John F.Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. His published Harvard study challenged conventional wisdom of an automatic cause and effect relationship between real-time television coverage of conflicts (the 'CNN factor') and the making of foreign policy.