Biographies

Presenter, Today

Justin Webb is a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, a role he took up in August 2009.

Justin joined the Today team from Washington where he was the BBC's North America Editor since December 2007.

For six years he was the BBC Radio Chief Washington Correspondent, and has previously been an occasional presenter of Today Programme and Broadcasting House.

In 2007 he presented Death To America, a major Radio 4 documentary series on anti-Americanism.

Before coming to Washington he spent three years as the BBC's Europe Correspondent, based in Brussels, Belgium.

Prior to that he was a radio and TV presenter based in London. For three years he was the main anchor of Breakfast News and also presented the Six O'Clock News. During that time he interviewed many senior politicians and two Prime Ministers, John Major and Tony Blair.

His previous career included stints as a roving foreign correspondent during which he reported from the first Gulf War, the war in Bosnia, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the first democratic elections in South Africa, and even a coup in the Maldive Islands!

His first job in the BBC was for BBC Radio Ulster, based in Belfast.

He has been employed by the BBC as an ambassador for the organisation, holding public meetings and chairing question and answer sessions.

He was educated at Friends' School Sidcot and the London School of Economics from which he graduated in 1983 with an honours degree in Economics.

He lives in London with his wife Sarah and their three children.