Gordon Corera

Who is Gordon Corera?

Gordon Corera is a British journalist. He is the Security Correspondent for the BBC.

Corera studied modern history at St Peter's College, Oxford, followed by graduate studies in US foreign policy at Harvard University. He then worked on the re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton.

Corera joined the BBC in 1997 as a researcher and later became a reporter. He worked on Radio 4's The World Tonight, BBC2's Newsnight, and worked in the US as the BBC's State Department correspondent and as an analyst for the BBC's coverage of the 2000 US presidential election. In 2001 he became the foreign reporter for Radio 4's Today program. He was appointed BBC News' security correspondent in 2004.

Corera presented the 2009 Radio 4 program MI6: A Century in the Shadows, a three-part history of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.