Fergal Keane is one of the most trusted foreign correspondents of his generation. He is the winner of Emmy, BAFTA, and RTS awards as well as the George Orwell Prize and the James Cameron Award. He reported on major world events for the BBC for nearly 40 years.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded an OBE for services to television journalism for his reporting of the Rwandan genocide. Together with his wife, the Oscar winning filmmaker Alice Doyard, he is co-founder of the Lightkeeper Films. Fergal has written best selling works of history and memoir.