Nic Robertson

Nic Robertson is an award-winning CNN International Diplomatic Editor whose experience, knowledge, and expertise have established his reputation as one of the finest international correspondents in the industry. Based in the London bureau, he travels extensively covering diplomacy, political instability, global terrorism, wars, armed conflicts as well as natural disasters. Since joining CNN in 1990,– Throughout his career at CNN,– Robertson has covered most global leadership summits in recent years, including multiple G7 and G20 meetings, and is a leading voice in the network's coverage unravelling political developments in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States. He reported heavily on Brexit in 2016 and the tumult in British politics in the years since. He also covered U.S. President Donald Trump's official visits to Saudi Arabia, UK, Japan, Robertson has worked in conflict zones from the Balkans to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and all over the Middle East.– In Afghanistan,–– Robertson secured exclusive access and interviews in the aftermath of the 2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Kabul and subsequent Taliban takeover, including to the notorious prison in Bagram. Robertson has also reported extensively on the civil war in Yemen, consistently securing very rare exclusive access,– most notably to the front lines in an embed with the Saudi-led coalition and to the war-torn city of Marib amidst intensifying attacks from Houthi rebels. Robertson was one of the first western journalists to reach Osama Bin Laden's compound following his killing by US navy Seals in May 2011. He reported from ground zero in Beirut, Lebanon covering the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. Robertson has also extensively documented the escalating violence in Syria, from both inside and outside the country. His powerful CNN report Syria: Frontline Town - Zabadani won him the prestigious 2012 Prix Bayeux TV War Correspondent of the Year award and The New York Festivals 2013 Award for Coverage of a Continuing News Story. Robertson was also recognised, alongside CNN colleagues, with an Emmy and a Peabody Award in 2012 for his extensive reportage on the Arab Spring and its repercussions as it spread across the Middle East. In Libya,–– he reported from both sides of the conflict, interviewing Muamar Gadhafi's sons Saif al Islam and Saadi Gadhafi, as well as being the first to report live during NATO bombings of the Gadhafi compound. Throughout 2002 and early 2003,– Robertson reported from Iraq, during a period of growing tension between Saddam Hussein's government and the West, remaining in Baghdad during the build-up to Coalition shock and awe strikes on the city in 2003. Robertson was one of the only western television journalists in Taliban-held Afghanistan when the terror attacks unfolded in the United States on September 11th, 2001, and was able to report on the Taliban response and the attacks by the Northern Alliance on Kabul live via satellite videophone. He reported from all over Afghanistan during the War against Terror, including the fall of the Taliban’s regime in 2002. Robertson has also been dispatched to the site of major terrorist incidents, natural disasters, and accidents across the globe. In 2019,– he was one of the first reporters on the scene after the terror attack in Borough Market in London, and in 2017 he was again quick on scene following– In 2015,– Robertson covered the November terrorist attacks in Paris as well as the Charlie Hebdo massacre. He also reported from Kenya following the 2015 Westgate Mall terror attack and was part of CNN's award-winning team.– Robertson has a long history of receiving prestigious awards for his work, including multiple Emmys, Peabodys, duPont Awards,– In 2019 People Magazine voted him Sexiest News Correspondent. –