Jeremy Bowen is a Welsh journalist and TV presenter. He has worked for the BBC for nearly 40 years. He has reporting from more than 70 countries, primarily as a war correspondent. Since 2005 Jeremy has been the BBC’s Middle East Editor. As of April 2022, he has become a... Read more
Jeremy Bowen is a Welsh journalist and TV presenter. He has worked for the BBC for nearly 40 years. He has reporting from more than 70 countries, primarily as a war correspondent. Since 2005 Jeremy has been the BBC’s Middle East Editor. As of April 2022, he has become a leading reporter on the military situation in Ukraine, reporting from the ground.
Before that Jeremy was the BBC’s Rome Correspondent. Since becoming Middle East Editor he has, among other things, led the coverage of the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon, for which BBC News was awarded an International Emmy. He won a first prize at the Bayeux War Correspondent Awards for a Panorama film on the Gaza War of 2009. He was active in 2011 covering the Arab Spring in Eqypt and Libya and is currently covering the on-going issues in Syria.
He is often remembered for presenting BBC Breakfast which he presented for two years from its launch in 2000 before taking a break to work on a book about the Middle East. Before joining BBC Breakfast, Jeremy was a BBC Middle East Correspondent, where he moved in 1995. Jeremy has also presented other television and radio programmes including a landmark BBC One documentary on “Moses”, which was a follow-up to his award-winning BBC One series “Son Of God”. In 2008, he presented a documentary for BBC Two about the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel.
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeremy has reported from more than 70 countries and has covered conflicts in the Gulf, El Salvador, Lebanon, the West Bank, Gaza, Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia and Rwanda, Iraq, Algeria, Libya and Syria. During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, he reported extensively from the region, often in dangerous conditions, which included being robbed at gunpoint by bandits while reporting from the Albanian border.
In 1995 Jeremy won Best News Correspondent at the New York Television Festival. He repeated this success the following year, when he won RTS Best Breaking News Report for his coverage of President Rabin’s assassination. In 2004, he won a Sony Gold award for News Story of the Year on the arrest of Saddam Hussein. Jeremy has also been shortlisted for a number of war reporting awards, including the Bayeux award, and he was part of the BBC teams that won a Bafta for their Kosovo coverage. In 1999 he presented a special programme on BBC One examining the aftermath of the Turkish earthquake.
He specialises in presenting and motivational speaking.