Nick Bryant

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The WJEC 2025 Organising Committee is pleased to officially announce Nick Bryant as the first of our keynote speakers.

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During a distinguished career with the BBC, Nick Bryant came to be regarded as one of the finest foreign correspondents of his generation. An America specialist, he reported on the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. He has also covered many of the most momentous news events of our time, including the attacks of September 11th, the Asian tsunami, the Good Friday Agreement, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin,  the war in Afghanistan and the Coronavirus epidemic 
 
He is the author of a number of books including When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present, which Joe Biden keeps in the Oval Office, and more recently, The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself.

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He has written for The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, Foreign Policy, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is a history graduate from Cambridge University, who holds a doctorate in US politics from Oxford University.

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We are thrilled to feature Nick Bryant as a very special guest at the 7th WJEC in Perth, Australia. More details to follow.