Nik Gowing

Main presenter, BBC World News.

Nik Gowing has been a main presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News, since 1996, where he presents The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London and location coverage. For 18 years he worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw, and Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News (1988-1996). He has been a member of the councils of Chatham House (1998–2004), the Royal United Services Institute (2005–present), and the Overseas Development Institute (2007-), the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (1996-2005), and the advisory council at Wilton Park (1998- ).
In 1994 he was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center in the J F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation and member of the Advisory Board for the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy. He has been a Visiting Fellow in International Relations at Keele University in the UK. He is a member of the steering committee of the British-German Konigswinter committee and the Strategy Committee of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition at Harvard University. He is a founding committee member for the Rory Peck Trust which campaigns for the interests of freelance TV cameramen and women.

Independently of his work for BBC News, Nik specialises in convening ideas and issues related to the contemporary challenges of policy making by moderating at conferences. Nik also has a much sought-after analytical expertise on the management of information in the new transparent environments of conflicts, crises, emergencies and times of tension.