Jeremy Bowen is the BBC's Middle East Editor. He was appointed in August 2005 and is based in London.

 

Before that Jeremy was the Rome Correspondent for BBC Television News.

 

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 is remembered for Breakfast (also BBC One) which he presented for two years from its launch in October 2000 before taking a short break to work on a book about the Middle East.

 

Before joining Breakfast, Jeremy was the BBC's Middle East Correspondent, where he moved in 1995.

 

Jeremy has also presented other television and radio programmes for the BBC including a landmark BBC One documentary on Moses, which was a follow-up to the 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 and Kosovo.

 

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 August 1999 he presented a special programme on BBC One examining the aftermath of the Turkish earthquake.

 

Jeremy also presented the BBC One special following the Asian tsunami.

 

Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 as a news trainee. He then spent spells in the radio newsroom and as a television news correspondent before becoming Geneva Correspondent for Radio News in 1987.

 

Born in Cardiff in 1960, Jeremy was educated at Cardiff High School.

 

He attended University College London and then went to the School of Advanced International Studies John Hopkins University in both Italy and the USA.

 

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