Jeremy Bowen - Speaker

Jeremy Bowen is a Welsh journalist and TV presenter who has worked for the BBC for nearly 40 years, reporting from over 70 countries, mainly as a war correspondent. Since 2005, he has served as the BBC’s Middle East Editor and, as of April 2022, has reported on the military situation in Ukraine.
Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 as a news trainee. He worked in the radio newsroom and as a television news correspondent before becoming the Geneva correspondent in 1987. He began frontline reporting in 1989 in El Salvador and covered the Bosnian war in the early 1990s and the Kosovo conflict later in the decade. Jeremy was the BBC’s Middle East correspondent from 1995 to 2000, after which he presented the morning show Breakfast. He has also guest-hosted Have I Got News for You and presented documentaries on Jesus and Moses.
In 2003, Jeremy returned to field reporting as a BBC News Special Correspondent and was appointed the first Middle East Editor in 2005. His books include "In Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East" (2005), "War Stories" (2006), "Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime" (2012), and "The Making of the Modern Middle East" (2022).
Jeremy has received numerous awards for his work, including a Fellow of University College London in 2005 and honorary fellowships from several universities. His accolades include the New York Television Festival's Best News Correspondent, multiple Royal Television Society awards, a BAFTA for Kosovo coverage, and an International Emmy for the 2006 Lebanon war coverage.