Zeinab Badawi

Zeinab Badawi

Zeinab Badawi — born birth date and age|1959|10|03|df=y — is a television and radio reporter and news presenter in the United Kingdom. She was the first presenter of the ITV Morning News co-presented "Channel 4 News" with Jon Snow for several years, before joining BBC News.

Badawi was born in Sudan and has lived in Britain since the age of two. She graduated from Oxford University (St Hilda's College) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) with a post-graduate degree on the Middle East from the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies), awarded with a distinction. She joined ITN and in 1989 she began working on "Channel 4 News", leaving for the BBC in 1998. She worked at Westminster on live political programmes for five years, and also worked on BBC radio, regularly presenting "The World Tonight" on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service's "Newshour".

In 2005, Badawi became the new presenter of "The World" on BBC Four, the UK's first daily news bulletin devoted principally to international news. In May 2007 this programme was re branded as World News Today.

She has been an adviser to the Foreign Policy Centre and a Council Member of the Overseas Development Institute. She is a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and the British Council.

External links

* [http://www.knightayton.co.uk/zeinab_badawi.html Knight Ayton Management information]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/04_april/26/badawi.shtml Zeinab Badawi presents BBC FOUR's The World] — press release from the BBC, 26 April 2005
* [http://polnews.50webs.org/zeinabbadawi.htm Zeinab Badawi]


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