MARK MARDELL

Mark Mardell has been at the forefront of reporting and analysing major world events for radio and TV for twenty five years. As first Newsnight’s Political Editor and then the Chief Political Correspondent for the BBC’s main TV and radio programmes, he reported on the huge changes in British politics including the fall of Lady Thatcher, the rise of euroscepticsism, the formation of New Labour and the road to the Iraq war.

After the 2005 election he became the BBC’s first Europe Editor covering the birth of the Lisbon Treaty and EU politics in all its guises. In 2009 he became the BBC North America editor, reporting on the 2012 Presidential election, the rise and perhaps fall of the Tea Party, and the twists and turns of Barack Obama’s foreign policy. He has made radio documentaries on the relationship between China and the USA, “Harmony and Hostility” and the future of the Republican party broadcast on Radio Four.