Gavin Esler

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• Business
• Finance & Economics
• Politics
• TV/Radio Presenter

Gavin is a fantastic after dinner speaker and conference host. Gavin has anchored BBC News 24 since 1997 and reported for news and documentary programmes across Europe, Russia, China and North and South America. Gavin joined the presenting team of Newsnight in January 2003.

He began his career as a reporter on The Belfast Telegraph. He joined BBC Television as Northern Ireland reporter and then BBC TWO's Newsnight as a reporter/presenter.

He received a Royal Television Society award for his reports on the military build up in the Aleutian Islands as part of the Reagan administration's New Maritime Strategy.

Gavin was appointed to Washington Correspondent in 1989, and then Chief North America Correspondent a year later.

In charge of shaping and directing BBC coverage from North America, he has travelled extensively across the US and was accredited to the White House to cover the Bush and Clinton administrations.

He presented BBC News 24's comprehensive coverage of the President Clinton/Lewinsky hearings.

Gavin is also a presenter of the BBC World arts and culture programme Hardtalk Extra, plus Dateline London, also on BBC World, and the foreign affairs series Four Corners on BBC Radio Four.

He also writes a weekly column for The Scotsman newspaper.

Gavin is the author of three novels: Loyalties, Deep Blue and The Blood Brother. He has also written a book on American discontent: The United States of Anger.

TELEVISION

• Newnight - BBC2
• BBC News 24
• Hardtalk Extra - BBC World
• Dateline London - BBC News 24/BBC World
• BBC 5 O'Clock News - BBC News 24
• Newsroom South East - BBC1
• Chief North American Correspondent - BBC
• Washington Correspondent - BBC
• Northern Ireland Correspondent - BBC

RADIO

• Four Corners - BBC Radio 4

JOURNALISM

• The Scotsman - Columnist
• The Independent - Columnist
• The Belfast Telegraph - Columnist

LITERARY

• A Scandolous Man - HarperCollins, 2008
• The United States of Aner - Penguin, 1998
• The Blood Brothers - HarperCollins, 1995
• Deep Blue - HarperCollins, 1992
• Loyalties - Headline, 1990

AWARDS

Gavin has won several awards, including a Royal Television Award for his report on the military build up in Aleutian Islands as part of the Reagan administration's 'New Maritime Strategy', and a Sony Gold Award for BBC Radio 4's Letters from Guantanamo Bay.

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