Paul Wood

Paul Wood is a British journalist. He is the World Affairs correspondent for the BBC. He was previously the defence and Middle East correspondent.

Early life Paul Wood graduated from the London School of Economics, where he received a bachelor's degree in political science.

Career Wood reported from Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, and Macedonia, Chechnya, Algeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, including Darfur. also collaborated with Zoe Lafferty and Ruth Sherlock on the 2012 stage play The Fear of Breathing: Stories from the Syrian Revolution. The trio clandestinely traveled to Syria to conduct interviews and collect research.

Awards In 2004, his Iraq War coverage won both the television prize at the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents and a Golden Nymph Award at the Monte Carlo television festival.

Wood is an Eric & Wendy Schmidt Fellow who has received many other awards: "His stories have won two Emmys, a Peabody, and he was twice awarded the US Radio and TV Correspondents' Association David Bloom award for foreign reporting. He was also the UK Foreign Press Association's journalist of the year."