Turn on your TVs and tune into BBC World!!!

Turn on your TVs and tune into BBC World!!! The British Chamber is delighted to announce that Nik Gowing, the acclaimed main presenter for BBC World, will be the April featured guest speaker. His biography is extensive, so mark your calendars now to attend this luncheon to hear further details of his many achievements.

For exactly ten years, Nik Gowing has been one of the most recognisable faces of BBC World, the BBC’s award-winning international TV news and information channel, drawing on his extensive reporting experience over two decades in diplomacy, defence and global security. He has been a main anchor for much of BBC World’s coverage of the major international crises of the past decade, including Kosovo in 1999, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Iraq war in 2003.

Before joining BBC World, Nik was a foreign affairs specialist and presenter at ITN for 18 years. From 1989 to 1996 he was Diplomatic Editor for the nightly analysis programme, Channel Four News, from ITN in London. His reporting from Bosnia was part of the Channel Four News portfolio which won BAFTA’s Best News Coverage award in 1996, and he collected another BAFTA award for exclusive coverage of martial law in Poland in 1981.

Independently of his work for BBC World, Nik has developed a sought-after analytical expertise on the management of information in the new transparent environments of conflicts and emergencies. His 1997 study for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict in Washington DC has challenged conventional wisdom on assumptions about the media’s role in preventing conflict, receiving wide attention and stirring new international debate.

Join us to welcome Nik Gowing for a special presentation on his career, the challenges faced every day within the world’s largest newsgathering operation, and the ways in which technology is changing the way that news is reported across the globe. Nik’s talk, which includes insightful video and audio clips, is sure to be stimulating, informative and extraordinarily engaging.

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