Last updated September 2008
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Clive Myrie is the BBC's Europe Correspondent based in Brussels. Prior to this he was based in Paris, Washington, Asia and Los Angeles.
Born in Bolton, Greater Manchester, Clive was educated at Hayward Grammar School and graduated with an Honours degree in Law from the University of Sussex in 1985.
He joined the BBC in 1988 as a reporter for Radio Bristol. After a year with Independent Radio News, he returned to the BBC to work in regional journalism.
He joined BBC network news in 1992 as a News correspondent based in London, before his first overseas posting to Japan in 1996.
Clive has reported from more than 50 countries on some of the most important events of the past decade.
These include the impeachment of President Clinton, the war in Kosovo, the Palestinian Intifada and the fall of the Taleban in Afghanistan.
During the Iraq war of 2003 he was "embedded" with Royal Marines from 40 Commando, a unit of 3 Commando Brigade, part of the British Armed Forces.
Clive has won a number of awards, including a Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo Television Festival (2003) for his coverage of the Iraq war and a Screen Nations Award for Services to Broadcast Journalism (2003).
He has also been nominated twice for the Bayeaux War Correspondents Award (2001 and 2003) and for a BAFTA Award (2000), as part of the BBC team covering the floods in Mozambique.
Away from work, Clive enjoys the cinema and jazz.
