Zeinab Badawi regularly secures interviews with world leaders and people of influence from the world of politics, business and NGOS, and through a big range of international contacts is a regular at major global gatherings.
Previously, she was the presenter of World News Today with Zeinab Badawi, one of BBC World News' core news and analysis programmes. Also available on BBC Four in the United Kingdom, World News Today is aimed at an audience in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
The programme features an emphasis on analysis and debate plus a summary of the day's news stories, bringing context and understanding to the most complex events. After a three-year stint reporting on British politics, covering the party conferences and presenting programmes on British politics live from the BBC's Westminster studios, Zeinab joined BBC World News - the BBC's international news TV channel, where she has become a regular face.
Zeinab has been in the media for three decades and through her work as a TV and radio journalist has reported extensively around the world. She has worked on a range of programmes - in news, current affairs and documentaries - including covering the famine in Africa, conflicts in Somalia, Iraq before the first Gulf war and Syria.
She presented and reported a 20 part series on economics and made a flagship Radio 3 series on the people of the Nile. Zeinab was born in Sudan but came to the UK at the age of three.
She read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University. She has a Masters Degree from London University and an honorary doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies London University. Fluent in Arabic, Zeinab also studied French and Russian.
In 2009 Zeinab was awarded the International TV Personality of the Year - awarded by the Association of International Broadcasters.
