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Mishal Husain

Bynum Tudor Fellow

BBC Journalist

Kellogg College

Mishal Husain is a journalist, broadcaster and author who was a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme for 11 years and will launch a new global interview show for Bloomberg in 2025.

She started her BBC career as a producer in 1998, becoming a presenter on BBC World News in 2001 and reporting on location from the US to the Middle East, South Asia, Singapore and China. In 2014 she was the first journalist to enter the school attacked by the Taliban in Pakistan and in 2017 her engagement interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was seen around the world. Her documentaries have included a series on Mahatma Gandhi, on social media and the Arab uprisings of 2011, on Malala Yousafzai, and ’The Longest Reign’, about Queen Elizabeth II.

Her books are ‘The Skills: How to Win at Work’ and ‘Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence.’ In 2024 she presented two election debates for the BBC and won the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Journalism.