Stephen Sackur Biography
Stephen John Sackur is an English journalist who hosts HARDtalk, a BBC World News and BBC News Channel current affairs interview show. On BBC World News, he was also the primary Friday presenter of GMT. He worked as a foreign reporter for the BBC for fifteen years and is a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 4 and a variety of newspapers and publications.
How old is Stephen Sackur? – Age
Sackur was born on 9 January 1964 in the English town of Spilsby, United Kingdom.
Where did Stephen Sackur go to school? – Education
He was the son of a farmer named Robert Sackur and his wife Sallie Caley. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Spilsby and Emmanuel College in Cambridge, where he earned a BA honors degree in history, before becoming a Henry Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Stephen Sackur – Family
Sackur was the son of a farmer named Robert Sackur and his wife Sallie Caley.
Stephen Sackur Wife – Family
His wife is Zina Sabbagh and they have three children.
What is Sackur Salary?
His salary ranges between $ 24,292 and $ 72,507.
Sackur Net Worth
His net worth is $1.5 million.
Sackur Career
Sackur began working at the BBC as a trainee in 1986, and in 1990 he was appointed as one of its foreign affairs correspondents. As a BBC Radio correspondent, Sackur reported on the Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990. During the Gulf War, he was part of a BBC team covering the conflict and spent eight weeks as an embedded journalist with the British Army. At the end of the war, he was the first correspondent to report the massacre of the retreating Iraqi army on the road leading out of Kuwait. Sackur was based in Cairo, Egypt between 1992 and 1995 as the BBC’s correspondent in the Middle East and he later moved to Jerusalem in 1995 until 1997. He covered both the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the growth of the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat. Between 1997 and 2002, he was appointed the BBC’s correspondent in Washington and covered the Lewinsky scandal. He later covered the U.S. Presidential Election in 2000 and interviewed President George W. Bush. Sackur went back to Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein and was the first to report Iraq’s mass graves of victims of the regime. He was also the moderator of the BBC’s worldwide broadcast of a debate on climate change with a panel of five world leaders from South Africa, the Maldives, Sweden, Australia, and Mexico. In 1991, he wrote On the Basra Road: Scenes from the Gulf War (London Review of Books). In 2005, Sackur replaced veteran journalist Tim Sebastian as the regular host of the BBC’s news program HARDtalk. He has since interviewed prominent international personalities, including President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, President Shimon Peres of Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, President Jalal Talabani of Iraq, Prime Minister of Moldova Iurie Leanca, US Vice-President Al Gore He has also spoken with Gore Vidal, Slavoj Iek, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Jordan Peterson, and Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as Annie Lennox. Sackur was named “International TV Personality of the Year” by the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) in November 2010. He was nominated as “Speech Broadcaster of the Year” at the Sony Radio Awards 2013. In June 2017, Sackur was conferred with an Honorary Doctorate of International Relations (DIR) by the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, and in July 2018, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Warwick.
Awards and honors
International TV Personality of the Year’ – Association for International Broadcasting (2013) Nominated for ‘Speech Broadcaster of the Year’ – Sony Radio Awards (2010)
BBC HARDtalk presenter (2004 present)
BBC’s Chief Europe Correspondent (2002–2005)
From 1997 until 2002, he worked as a Washington reporter for the BBC.