Emmy-award winning journalist Gordon Robison has more than 18 years of experience living in and covering the Middle East. He has been both Fox News’ Bureau Chief in Baghdad, and head of news at Al-Iraqiyah Television. In 2004-05 he was a senior fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication where he also served as Director of the Middle East Media Project at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.

Mr. Robison’s frequent work as a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs has included appearances on ‘The Big Story with John Gibson’ on Fox News, “The Mark Johnson Show” and as a featured speaker at Middlebury College’s Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, the Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations at Pomona College, the University of Vermont and at the Vermont Council on World Affairs.

Mr. Robison has lived in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia and also spent seven years with CNN. As a Senior Producer based at the network’s Atlanta headquarters he served as a newsroom supervisor. He was also an on-camera correspondent for the network, reporting from Jordan and Kuwait before and during the Iraq war.

His work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Times, The Irish Times and The Sunday Times (London) and US News & World Report, as well as on ABC Radio News and the English Service of Radio France Internationale. He is the author of Lonely Planet’s Arab Gulf States guidebook, and a contributor to numerous other Lonely Planet titles on the Middle East and the United States.

Mr. Robison is a graduate of Pomona College in Claremont, California.