During a thirty-year career in journalism, Jon Williams has covered some of the biggest stories of our time.

As Foreign Editor, first of the BBC, then of the US network ABC, spent a decade leading the broadcasters’ reporting of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, winning two Emmy Awards for coverage of the Syrian Civil War and the resulting refugee crisis. As World News Editor, in 2006 Jon moved BBC News’s Asia-Pacific headquarters to Beijing, later doing the same for ABC.

From 2001-2003, he was the main broadcast producer of BBC’s ONE’s Six O’clock News before becoming the UK News Editor, leading the BBC’s response to the 7/7 London transport bombings in 2005.

Until last summer Jon was Managing Director, News & Current Affairs at Ireland’s public broadcaster, RTÉ. He led the creative renewal of RTÉ News, transforming the broadcaster into a ‘digital-first’ news organisation, the market leader on radio, on TV and online, and Ireland’s most trusted news provider.

He returned to London in September, where he is currently writing a book due for publication in the autumn.