The former Diplomatic Editor and foreign correspondent for Sky News, Tim Marshall now brings thirty years’ experience in reporting and writing about international news to the corporate circuit as a keynote speaker. Tim translates his political analyses of world affairs into terms that appeal to all audiences - a skill which has contributed to his best-known book Prisoners of Geography being translated into more than 30 languages and selling over 3 million copies.

Originally hailing from Leeds, Tim arrived at broadcasting from the road less travelled. Neither a media studies nor journalism graduate, in fact not a graduate at all, he worked his way through newsroom nightshifts, and unpaid stints as a researcher and runner to the news producers. By demonstrating competence, drive, determination and good judgement, he eventually secured himself a foothold on the first rung of the career ladder.

Tim has reported in the field from Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. He spent the majority of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, where he was one of the few western journalists who stayed on to report from one of the main targets of NATO bombing raids, and he greeted the NATO troops in Kosovo itself on the day that they advanced into Pristina.

He has also been Sky News Europe Correspondent, heading up the Brussels Bureau.
During his career, Tim has been shot with bird pellet in Cairo, hit over the head with a plank of wood in London, bruised by the police in Tehran, arrested by Serbian intelligence, detained in Damascus, declared persona non grata in Croatia, bombed by the RAF in Belgrade, and tear-gassed all over the world.
He stresses, however, that none of this compares with the experience of going to see his beloved Leeds United away at Millwall FC in London.