Nick Bryant
Sydney Correspondent
BBC World

Nick Bryant was educated at Wellsway Comprehensive School on the outskirts of Bristol.

He went on to study Architecture and Modern History at Churchill College, Cambridge; completed
a PhD in American politics at Balliol College, Oxford; and was
a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

After writing for the Independent and the Daily Mail, he joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1994.

He worked as a reporter for Radio Five Live, then was made a Washington correspondent in 1998. He became the BBC's South Asia correspondent in 2003.

Stories include the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; the signing of the Good Friday Agreement; the impeachment of Bill Clinton; the disputed 2000 presidential election; the Washington sniper killings; the attacks of September 11 and their aftermath; the SARS outbreak in Canada; the Bam earthquake; Afghanistan's first presidential election; the Asian Tsunami; the Pakistan earthquake; the slide towards civil war in Sri Lanka and the Nepal's 'Ringroad Revolution.' 

He has reported from Ground Zero in New York; Guantanamo Bay; the Line of Control in Kashmir; the DMZ on the Korean peninsula; the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan; Rwanda; Gaza; Russia; Israel; Egypt; Tanzania; Japan; Argentina; and China.

He loves cricket, football, rugby, mountain-bike riding and eating. He is the author of The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality.