Mishal Husain is Editor at Large for Bloomberg Weekend, where she is launching a new multi-platform interview show in 2025, talking to politicians, business leaders, thinkers, and cultural figures from across the globe.

Mishal joined Bloomberg from the BBC, where she presented its leading news programme Today on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade. Before joining Today in 2013, she was an anchor on the international news channel BBC World News and has also been a familiar face to UK audiences on the main national news programmes. She was previously based in Washington and Singapore as a correspondent and anchor.

At the BBC, Mishal covered elections and referendums, including Brexit in 2016. In 2024, she hosted two UK Election debates, including the prime time head-to-head Prime Ministerial Debate between the two leading contenders – Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak – days before the UK public voted.

She joined the BBC as a producer in 1998 and became a presenter on BBC World News in 2001, reporting on location globally for the international news channel. She was live in New York on the day the financial markets reopened after 9/11, and from Washington on the night the Iraq war began in 2003. Later, she anchored from Beijing for the 2008 Olympics and from Pakistan after the killing of Osama Bin Laden.  She covered the 2011 uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and the elections that brought Prime Minister Modi to power in India in 2014. That same year, she became the first journalist to enter the school in northern Pakistan attacked by the Taliban, hours after the massacre.

Mishal has presented several critically acclaimed documentaries including a series on Mahatma Gandhi, a documentary on social media and the Arab uprisings of 2011, a profile of Malala Yousafzai, and “The Longest Reign,” about Queen Elizabeth II.

As an interviewer she is known for influential high-profile and insightful conversations, from Aung San Suu Kyi to her exclusive with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their engagement in 2017, which was seen around the world.

On the BBC she was also known for commentating on Royal occasions, from the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III.

In 2024 she was awarded the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism by the British Journalism Review.

Mishal has written two books, most recently a family memoir, Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence, which became a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and The Skills: How to Win at Work.