In February 1996 Nik Gowing was appointed a main programme anchor for the BBC’s 24-hour international TV news and information channel BBC World, produced by BBC News for a global audience of 169 million in 220 countries.

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 is now a main presenter on the news programmes re-launched in April 2000. Separate from his BBC work Nik’s skills as a moderator and conference chair are also in demand for corporate or institutional conferences, whether on- or off-the-record.

Just after 1 a.m. on August 31 1997, Nik was called in from home after reports that Princess Diana had been seriously injured in a car accident in Paris. For five hours he broadcast live on the unfolding drama. BBC World’s coverage was accessed by scores of broadcasters around the world. It is estimated that his announcement of Diana’s death just after 5 a.m. was made to an audience of up to half a billion people.

Nik Gowing’s appointment draws both on his extensive reporting experience over two decades in diplomacy, defence and international security and his presentation / chairing skills. BBC World drew on these skills throughout the Kosovo crisis from March to June 1999. Nik was a principal programme anchor for the channel’s extended 24-hour/7-day week coverage of the crisis.

Before joining the BBC, Nik was a correspondent 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. His investigations confirming covert US weapons air drops into Tuzla and on the fall of Srebrenica were singled out for praise in the Independent Television Commission programme review for 1995.

Since 1978 Nik Gowing has reported on many of the main international 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. In 1989 he broke the news that Russian troops were secretly leaving Afghanistan. He received an award from the New York TV Festival for his military and diplomatic analysis of the Gulf War.

During the 1980’s as Foreign Affairs correspondent, then Diplomatic Correspondent, Nik Gowing reported extensively from Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. In 1989 he reported the revolutions marking the end of Communism, as well as the unrest in China. He remained an accredited correspondent in Moscow, where he reported the assault on the White House in 1993.

From 1991 he reported extensively on war in the former Yugoslavia with particular emphasis on diplomacy and the politico-military. His Channel Four documentary Diplomacy and Deceit on the limits and failures of diplomacy in conflict management was widely acclaimed.

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.

His 1997 study for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict in Washington DC has similarly challenged conventional wisdom on assumptions about a role for the media in preventing conflict. Like the Harvard study it has received wide attention and stirred new international debate.

As a result of both studies, he has received numerous invitations to both participate in workshops and address defence/international relations institutes, strategic studies/humanitarian affairs conferences, government departments, the UN, the ICRC, military staff colleges, NGO’s and humanitarian organisations.

In May 1998 he completed an extended study funded by the European Commission into the effect of information control on humanitarian organisations and the media in the Great Lakes Crisis of Central Africa October 1996 - May 1997.

In September 1998 he was elected to the Council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, where he is now on the Executive Committee. He is also a member of the Academic Council at the Wilton Park conference centre, a vice chairman of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, a board member for the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, a member of the Advisory Board for the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy, and a Visiting Fellow in International Relations at Keele University in the UK. He is a founding committee member for the Rory Peck Trust which campaigns for the interests of freelance TV cameramen and women. He has recently been invited to join the Strategy Committee of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition at Harvard University.

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