Nik Gowing

• Main Presenter, BBC World News, United Kingdom

Over 20 years' experience in diplomacy, defence and international security. Work includes: 1978-96, Foreign Affairs Correspondent; Diplomatic Correspondent and Editor, Central & Eastern Europe and Soviet Union; 1994, Resident Fellow, Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Harvard Univ.; Visiting Fellow, Keele Univ. 1996-97, Consultant, Carnegie Commission on Prevention of Deadly Conflict; 1997-98, Consultant, European Humanitarian Office. Board Member, British Assoc. for Central & Eastern Europe. Council Member, Royal Institute of International Affairs. 1998-2004, Member, Academic Council, Wilton Park. Vice-Chair, Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Governor, Ditchley Foundation. 1996-2005, Analyst and Lecturer.