Nik Gowing
Since February 1996 Nik Gowing has been a main programme anchor for the BBC's 24-hour international TV news and information channel BBC World News, produced by BBC News. The channel's distribution is 278 million in 200 countries with a weekly audience of 78 million.
From September 2006 he has presented the premium news analysis programme ‘World News Today with Nik Gowing' for the fast-growing European peak audience. From July 2007 the focus of his programme shifted to the fast-growing South Asia audience at 1600GMT. He is also a regular moderator of the Sunday news analysis programme ‘Dateline London', BBC World Debates and the annual Nobel Minds discussion between Nobel laureates. He has been a guest presenter of ‘Europe Direct', ‘HardTalk' and ‘Simpson's World'.
Nik Gowing's role draws both on his extensive reporting experience over two decades in diplomacy, defence and international security and his presentation / chairing skills. He has been a principal programme anchor for much of BBC World's extended, continuous 24-hour/7-day week coverage of major international crises like Kosovo in 1999. In the 2003 Iraq war he anchored BBC News coverage across four BBC TV channels from near Central Command in Qatar. He was on air for the unfolding Tsunami catastrophe on Boxing day 2004, and for six hours shortly after the twin towers were hit in New York City on 11 September 2001. The 9-11 coverage won the 2002 ‘Hotbird' award. He fronted coverage of the unfolding drama of Princess Diana's accident in Paris in August 1997 and made the announcement of her death to a global audience estimated at half a billion. He also anchors special location coverage of major international events like elections, and chairs BBC World Debates at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the annual Nobel Awards in Stockholm.
Nik is a distinguished conference chair/moderator and speaker. He is also a lecturer and published analyst on crisis management and the handling of real-time information in times of major emergencies. He has an international portfolio of commitments that draw on his extensive experience over almost three decades in diplomacy, defence and international security. He was head-hunted by the BBC from ITN, where he was award-winning Diplomatic Editor for Channel 4 News in London and for 18 years covered most of the world's major news events.
He is currently updating the analysis as a Visiting Fellow at the Reuter Institute for the Study of Journalism in the Politics and International Relations Department at Oxford University.
From 1998 to 2004 he served two terms on the council of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, including membership of the Executive Committee from 2000-2002. From 1996-2005 he served as an independent governor of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, much of it as the non-party vice chair. He is a member of the executive council of the Royal United Services Institute, the council of the Overseas Development Institute, the board of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, the Advisory Council at the Wilton Park conference centre, and the Advisory Board for the University of Birmingham's Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy.,
Barclays Capital – Asia – November 2008
Chair and Moderator
Public events have included:
- Boao Forum For
- Televised debates between the world’s leading corporate and government figures at successive World Economic Forums in Davos (1996 to present) and New York (2002), plus regional summits in Delhi (1998- ), Jordan (2003, 2004, and re-invited for 2005), Warsaw on the eve of EU accession (2004), plus Doha and Singapore (2005). [appreciations available]
- 150-minute interactive debate among 600 airline CEO’s and senior airline executives at the annual meeting of IATA (International Air Transport Association) 2004 – to date. [appreciations available].
- Six sessions ‘in the round’ for 600 delegates over two days at the annual World Travel & Tourism Council in Doha, Qatar (2004). [appreciations available]
- Annual televised debates between the Nobel Prize winners at Nobel Foundation award ceremonies in
- Closed sessions of European Business Leaders’ Convention,
- Business conference, 600 delegates, major corporate sponsorship. IT & Telecommunications in the Arab World (2003,2004) [appreciations available] Re-invited for 2005
- Public debates on global water and environmental challenges (including issues of corruption) at annual Stockholm Water Symposium (2000 to present).
- Televised round table debate for major global leaders at Ambrosetti European House,
- Club of
- Town Hall meeting and open debate with
- Televised debate with senior global energy experts on ‘Energy Challenges’,
- 2-day European Union E-Skills Summit conference jointly hosted by the Danish EU Presidency and a consortium of international IT companies led by Cisco. 350 delegates.
- Televised debate between European leading business and political figures on European enlargement for BBC World ‘The Business of Enlargement’ in Solvay library,
- Business conference in
- Two sessions, including one with Heads of State and Government at the UN World Information Society Summit in
- Sessions at World Economic Forum/Southern Africa DevelopmentCommunity (SADC) meetings in Harare, Zimbabwe and Durban, South Africa involving regional presidents, government ministers and company chairmen/CEO’s.
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Annual Hay Festival sessions, including with Bill Clinton in front of 1100 audience (televised by BBC)
- INSEAD debate on Presidential Election (10/2004)
- Intelligence Squared public debates with audience of 800 on
- Plenary sessions of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) annual conferences in Manila, Nagoya and New Delhi. Re-invited for 2005
- British Energy seminar on future energy policy options
- Joint conference for International Institute of Communications/Royal Institute for International Affairs: ‘After the Fallout: Achieving Payback in the Communication Industry’ (10/2003)
- FTSE Global Index Forum in Vienna
- Royal Institute for International Affairs, London
- Royal College of Defence Studies, debates in London.
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva;
- Bosnia Reconciliation Conference bringing together senior figures (political and military) from the three warring factions. (Co-sponsors: Foundation for a Civil Society, New York and British Association for Central and Eastern Europe, London)
- British Council events including a conference on Governance and Media in developing countries and the launch of policy initiatives.
- World Bank conference
- United Nations
- Aspen Institutein Berlin
- Transfuse Association conference (German Marshall Fund) in Istanbul
- NewsWorld Convention for 400 global news broadcasters in Barcelona (1998-2001)
- NewsXchangeconvention for 500 global news broadcasters (2002 to present).
- Association of International Broadcasters annual conferences in Manchester, London
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