Zeinab Badawi is a presenter on BBC World News and flagship interview programme, HARDtalk. She has interviewed leading international figures including the Dalai Lama, President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir, Desmond Tutu, and Bill Clinton. She regularly secures interviews with world leaders and people of influence from the world of politics, business, and NGOS.
Previously she was the presenter of World News Today with Zeinab Badawi, one of BBC World News’ core news and analysis programmes.
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 twenty-part series on economics and made a flagship Radio 3 series on the people of the Nile.
In 2009 Zeinab was awarded the International TV Personality of the Year – awarded by the Association of International Broadcasters.
