Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson – Former Sky News Presenter & Conference Host

Andrew Wilson is a veteran news presenter and award-winning foreign correspondent and an experienced conference host and facilitator.

His first international assignment was to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. He went on to cover almost every major conflict around the world, from Kuwait to Bosnia, and from Haiti to Chechnya. At Sky News he was resident correspondent in Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, winning international awards for his coverage from all three postings.

Before journalism he spent a brief spell as an army officer, he also took time out to work with Greenpeace for three years in the early nineties making films on board the ship Rainbow Warrior.

He was part of the award-winning Sky News team that advanced in 1999 from Macedonia into Kosovo alongside the KFOR troops, and he reported on Boris Yeltsin’s resignation on Millennium night and he was with the first wave of Western reporters to cross overland into Kabul in 2001.

In Washington he covered the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, and reported form three US Presidential elections as a correspondent and later as a news presenter.

IN 2007 Andrew returned to London to present Sky News at 5 from the studio often taking the liove coverage into the field to the Amazon jungle and to North Africa for the Arab Spring.

Andre Wilson, in 2016, started his own consultancy and is a regular facilitator and interviewer at Davos and COP Environmental conferences. He has made numerous current affairs documentaries, was a regular contributor to the Westminster Foreign Affairs think tank Global Strategy Forum and even played himself in a Hollywood Movie.

He a partner in A Squared media, a consultancy firm working in television production, training, and documentaries.

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Andrew is a popular choice of conference host and facilitator for corporate events.