Margaret Gilmore

Margaret Gilmore is an award-winning journalist who has been an authoritative face on our TV screens for nineteen years. Her career in television, radio and newspapers has been a distinguished one, including most recently seven years as senior Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. She has covered many high-profile stories for the flagship Six and Ten O’Clock News bulletins – including the July 7th bombings, for which the BBC won a prestigious BAFTA award. She specialises in security, terrorism, the media and environmental issues.

As an Associate Fellow of RUSI (Royal United Services Institute for Security and Defence Studies), she continues to write, lecture and report on security issues and to meet with the most important people in security and intelligence. She also works as a freelance journalist and consultant, chairs conferences, and makes films for private and public sector clients.

She is now collaborating with Andy Hayman (qv) on his book THE TERRORIST HUNTERS, the inside story of how the police and security services are dealing with the threat of Islamist terrorism. THE TERRORIST HUNTERS will be published in July 2009 by Transworld.