PAUL DANAHAR

• Born:
• Nationality: British
• Profession: Reporter, Journalist, Author

Paul Danahar was the BBC's Middle East Bureau Chief between 2010-2013. He ran the organization’s news coverage of the Arab Spring for which he won two Emmy's and a Peabody. In 2003 he was awarded an MBE for his work as the BBC's Baghdad Bureau Chief during the American-led invasion. He is one of a small number of journalists to have reported from all three countries that make up the so-called 'Axis of Evil': Iraq, Iran and North Korea. He is now based in Washington DC as the BBC's Americas Bureaux Chief.