Jeremy Bowen
Jeremy Bowen was born in 1960. He was educated at Cardiff High School, University College London and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and Washington DC.
He joined the BBC as a graduate news trainee in 1984 and became a foreign correspondent in 1987. Bowen has had some part in the reporting of most of the major international stories since then. He has reported for the BBC from more than 80 countries, including more than 20 wars. In 2023 he was appointed as the BBC’s first International Editor with a brief to report on the most significant events in a turbulent world.
Jeremy Bowen has written four books. The most recent The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History, published by Picador in 2022, was a Sunday Times bestseller and named a book of the year by the Spectator and the New Statesman.
He has won many awards for journalism, including ones from the Royal Television Society, Emmy, BAFTA, Peabody, and the Bayeux war reporting festival. He was awarded the Mungo Park medal by the the Royal Scottish Geographical Society ‘in recognition of outstanding contributions and work of benefit to humanity in potentially hazardous physical and/or social environments.’ He is a fellow of UCL and has honorary degrees from five other universities.