Born in the swinging sixties, Jeremy was educated at Cardiff High School and also played football for the 'Youth Fifteen' team in the late Seventies. He has remained a supporter of Cardiff City Football Club throughout his life.
After graduating from University College in London with a BA in History, he studied at the School of Advanced International Studies at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Jeremy joined the BBC in 1984 as a news trainee.
After building his reputation as a broadcaster in the Radio Newsroom and as a Television News correspondent, he became the Geneva correspondent for Radio News in 1987.
Since then, Jeremy has been a war correspondent for much of his career, reporting from more than 70 different countries, covering conflicts in the Gulf, El Salvador, Lebanon, the West Bank, Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Somalia and Rwanda.
Jeremy became the Middle East correspondent in 1995 and won Best News Correspondent at the New York Television Festival. The following year, he won Best Breaking News report for his coverage of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.
He previously co-presented BBC One's Breakfast for two years after its launch in October 2000, and has also presented episodes of the satirical news quiz 'Have I Got News For You'. In March 2003, Jeremy Bowen became a special correspondent for BBC Television News, and in June 2005 Jeremy was appointed to the newly-created role of BBC Middle East Editor.
