Biographies

Presenter, Newshour and The Interview, BBC World Service

Owen Bennett-Jones began presenting BBC World Service's Newshour in the early Nineties.

He was a BBC correspondent in Romania immediately after the country's 1989 revolution.

He has also been based in Geneva, Islamabad and Hanoi.

In 2003 he wrote Pakistan: Eye Of The Storm, a modern history of the country, and he is currently working on a second edition.

Owen's coverage of the events in Pakistan in 2007 and 2008 included interviews with Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and President Musharraf, reporting on the country's corruption, Benazir Bhutto's return and on the aftermath of her assassination.

For his excellence as an interviewer and reporter, Owen won the Sony Radio Gold Award in the News Journalist of the Year category for 2008.

Owen has written for key British newspapers including The Guardian, Financial Times and The Independent.

He is also a presenter on another of the BBC World Service's main radio news programmes, The Interview.

He was educated at the London School of Economics and Oxford University.