Zeinab Badawi is the presenter of World News Today, one of BBC World News' hour-long news and analysis programmes.

Also available on BBC Four, World News Today showcases the best of the BBC's international journalism.

The programme features reports and discussions with leading BBC correspondents, and interviews and debates with people who are making the news around the globe.

Previously a presenter of BBC World News' The World, Zeinab has worked in British broadcasting for two decades.

She has worked on a range of programmes reporting from Europe, Asia and Africa, where she covered the famine in the mid-Eighties.

After a stint reporting and presenting programmes on British politics live from the BBC's Westminster studios, Zeinab joined BBC World News where she has become a regular face, presenting debates on major issues as well as being a presenter of HARDtalk, interviewing personalities such as the Dalai Lama and US General Tommy Franks.

Zeinab has also worked in radio, regularly presenting The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and Newshour on BBC World Service.

She is an Oxford graduate in politics and economics, with a post-graduate degree in Middle Eastern affairs from London University.

Zeinab has great authority in front of the camera, enabling her to draw on her dedication and understanding of international affairs to explain the issues behind the headlines.