Paul Wood is the BBC's Middle East Correspondent.

 

He was the BBC's Defence Correspondent from 2005 to 2007, covering Iraq, Afghanistan and defence stories in the UK. He was in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and in Fallujah during the battle for the city.

 

In 2004, his Iraq coverage won the television prize at the Bayeux awards for war correspondents and a Golden Nymph at the Monte Carlo television festival. These were awarded for his report of a devastating suicide attack on Iraqi pilgrims in Karbala. Paul carried on broadcasting while several bombs exploded around him and the BBC team.

 

In 2005, he was runner-up at the Royal Television Society for best international report, for coverage of Fallujah.

 

Paul was previously the BBC's Belgrade reporter and its Balkans reporter, filing stories from behind Serbian lines while travelling with Kosovan guerrillas during the NATO bombing in June 1999.

 

He has also reported from Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Chechnya, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Sudan, including Darfur.

 

He was a correspondent for the BBC in Northern Ireland and a producer in the BBC World Service newsroom at Bush House, London.

 

Before joining the BBC Paul worked for local and national newspapers.

 

He graduated from the LSE in Political Science.

 

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