Mishal Husain is Editor-at-Large at Bloomberg Weekend, where her weekly interviews since May 2025 have ranged from Elon Musk and Keir Starmer to ‘Succession’ writer Jesse Armstrong and UN AIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima. This ethos of a global guest list spanning politics, business, culture and thought leaders, will develop into a visualised podcast later this year.
After a near 30-year career in media, she won the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Journalism in 2024. She has written two books, the Sunday Times bestseller ‘Broken Threads: A Family from Empire to Independence’ and ‘The Skills: How to Win at Work.’ She spent many years at the BBC, where she presented the ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4, the main television news on BBC1, and had an international presence on BBC World.
She has reported from around the world and presented live on location, including New York after 9/11, Washington through the Iraq War, Beijing for the 2008 Olympics and Pakistan after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. She covered the 2011 Arab uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and the election that brought Prime Minister Modi to power in India. In 2014 she was the first reporter to enter the school attacked by the Taliban in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
As an interviewer she is known for high-profile conversations, from Aung San Suu Kyi to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, but also for bringing out powerful personal stories. She has covered elections and referendums and in 2024 hosted two live leaders’ debates on BBC TV, including the contenders for Prime Minister going head-to-head days before the UK voted. She has also fronted documentaries: a three-part series on the life of Mahatma Gandhi in 2008, an investigation of social media and the ‘Arab Spring’ in 2011, a one-hour special on Malala Yousafzai in 2013, and ‘The Longest Reign’, about the life of the late Queen Elizabeth. On the BBC she was also known for coverage of major royal events, from the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth and the coronation of King Charles. The London Press Club has twice named her Broadcaster of the Year, most recently in 2024.
