Jane Corbin is an Honorary Professor in the Department of War Studies and a King’s alumnus. Jane is internationally known and respected as one of the journalistic faces of the BBC, she has covered the world’s major conflicts for several decades. As senior correspondent for Panorama, BBC1’s flagship current affairs programme, she has investigated the key global issues of our times and won many awards. She has written and presented major documentaries on China and Russia as well as her extensive coverage of the Middle East and Central Asia. 

• Author of “The Base: In search of al-Qaeda, the terror network that shook the world” and “Gaza First: Inside the secret Oslo negotiations”

• Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Ambassador for the charity Concern Worldwide.

• International media commentator on the Middle East and Asia. Expert witness for UK Parliamentary Committees on Foreign Affairs.

• Three times winner of the Royal Television Society award, BAFTA winner, Emmy nominee, Amnesty International and other awards.

Senior BBC Foreign Affairs correspondent

Jane specialises in international investigations and is known for her work as a war correspondent, covering terrorism and proliferation. Jane has produced a major body of work on the Middle East, especially Israel/Palestine, Iraq and al-Qaeda

Most recently Jane has reported from Israel on the Hamas attacks of October 7^th 2023 and the war in Gaza. She also presented a BBC2 documentary on the Doomsday Clock, ticking closer to nuclear Armageddon as Russia and North Korea’s threaten to use such weapons.

Jane has reported extensively on Israel and Palestine over many decades; she had exclusive access to the secret negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords in 1993, returning with Yasser Arafat to take over in Gaza. She charted the breakdown of the peace process after Yitzak Rabin was assassinated, Israeli settlements expanded on the West Bank and Hamas seized control of Gaza.

Jane was one of the first journalists to identify the threat from al-Qaeda three years before 9/11 and she is one of the foremost experts on Osama Bin Laden and his organisation. She worked extensively in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 2001 covering the hunt by coalition Special Forces for Bin Laden to his killing in 2011.

Jane has revealed the inside stories of terrorist attacks in the UK, USA, North Africa and Asia and followed the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria. She covered the ‘Arab Spring’ popular uprisings from 2011 on the ground in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria.

Jane has worked extensively on proliferation issues, revealing before 1992 how Iraq built its secret WMD programme, with access to the UN Weapons Inspectors. And she was with the Iraq Survey Group in 2003 as they failed to find the weapons used as justification for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime. She investigated North Korea’s nuclear ambitions interviewing defectors in Seoul during the standoff between Kim Jong-Un and President Trump in his first term.

Jane has made films in Iran, revealing their secret programme to enrich uranium, covering the ‘Green Revolution” uprising and investigating the rise of General Qassem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, IRGC, the year before he was killed by a US drone strike.

Jane has reported for many decades on humanitarian issues and disasters in Africa and Pakistan– from famine in Mali to the legacy of the genocide in Rwanda and devastating floods in Sindh, Pakistan.

In 2023 Jane explored how Taiwan is standing up to China amid fears of a Chinese invasion and wider conflict in the Pacific and she has revealed how the CCP is secretly extending its global influence and technology acquisition through the United Front Work Department.

Jane has covered the former Soviet republics, the Balkans and Eastern Europe and worked in Russia over three decades. She wrote and presented a major BBC1 investigation into the nerve agent attack in Salisbury in 2018, reported on President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and revealed how the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened Putin’s grip on power.

Jane contributes regularly to BBC podcasts and radio appearing on “Today”, Five Live, “Newshour”. She has presented BBC News, The Money Programme, Election Specials and appeared on CNN, ABC, CBS and other international outlets. She has made nearly two hundred documentaries, written many online features, viewed globally by tens of millions of people.