Caroline Hawley

Caroline Hawley (born 1967 in Nigeria) is a British journalist who has been a special correspondent for the BBC News channel since 2007.

Early life Hawley is a daughter of British diplomat Sir Donald Hawley. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey, an independent school for girls in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, followed by Pembroke College, Oxford where she studied Arabic and Persian.

Career Hawley began her career in journalism on Newsweek as the magazine's Jerusalem correspondent from 1991 to 1994.

While the BBC's Baghdad correspondent, she was expelled from Iraq in 2002, but returned to the country after Saddam Hussein was removed from power the following year. She was appointed the BBC Middle East correspondent at the beginning of 2006. Hawley and her partner were dining in the Grand Hyatt in Amman when it was bombed in November 2005 by Al-Qaeda; they were unhurt. Hawley was based in Jerusalem from the beginning of 2006. The owner of the company which made the GT200, Gary Bolton, was also convicted on 26 July 2013 on two charges of fraud and subsequently jailed for seven years.

In 2026, she sat in for John Simpson on Unspun World.