Mishal Husain

Mishal Husain is one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s influential Today programme and the television news on BBC One. In over twenty years in journalism she has worked on big international as well as British stories and become known for interviewing, presenting on location and for critically acclaimed documentaries such as ‘Malala – Shot for Going to School’ and the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Her work has taken her from Davos to refugee camps and from interviewing Prime Ministers to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

Born in the UK, she grew up in the Middle East and was later educated at Cambridge University, where she read law. She also has a Master’s in Law from the European University Institute in Florence.