Margaret Gilmore is a familiar and authoritative face on our TV screens, highly respected for her writing and broadcasting talents, her specialist knowledge and analytical skills, her wide range of contacts and her appeal to the audience. Her career in television, radio and newspapers has been a distinguished one, including most recently six years as senior Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News.

She has covered many high profile stories - like the July 7th bombings and their consequences for the flagship Six and Ten O'Clock Bulletins, for which the BBC won a prestigious BAFTA award.

As the BBC's Environment Correspondent her incisive and accessible reporting placed issues like climate change and global warming on the political agenda, and she received the top environment award, a BEMA, for TV Environment Correspondent of the Year. She remains passionately interested in environmental issues.

Margaret has also made many longer films while working as a correspondent for Newsnight, Panorama, and ITV's This Week. She reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall, the freeing of the Guildford Four, Princess Diana's death, as well as from war zones such as Somalia and Iraq. She began her BBC career in Northern Ireland at the height of the troubles – and before that worked for newspapers and independent radio. Her work in documentaries led to nominations for Royal Television Society and Monte Carlo broadcasting awards.

In addition to her writing and broadcasting work, Margaret has undertaken frequent public speaking engagements and lectures and has chaired many conferences. She is an Associate Fellow of the leading independent security think tank RUSI, which specialises in analysis of security and terrorist issues.

As a BBC senior home news correspondent Margaret specialises in security, terrorism and environmental issues. She is a popular and professional event host and conference chair.