Stephen Sackur Biography
Stephen Sackur is an English journalist known for hosting HARDtalk, a show that airs on both BBC World News and BBC News Channel. He is as well a GMT’s main Friday presenter and a podcaster hosting the HARDtalk podcast.
Stephen Sackur Age
Sackur was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England on 9th of January 1964.
Stephen Sackur Height
Stephen stands tall at a height of 5 ft 8 in/1.72 m tall.
Stephen Sackur Family
Stephen was born to his supportive and hardworking parents Robert and Sallie Caley. His father Robert was a farmer and was born in the United Kingdom but is of white ethnicity.
Stephen Sackur Wife
Stephen is married to Zina Sabbagh. The duo wedded in 1992. More information on his love live are publicly unavailable, this section will be updated as it is available with the public.
Stephen Sackur Education
Stephen completed his high school at King Edward VI Grammar School and later joined Emmanuel College, Cambridge and later earned a BA honors degree in history. He thereafter joined as a Henry Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Stephen Sackur’s Salary
Stephen earns an annual estimated salary of $98,670.
Stephen Sackur Net Worth
Stephen has an estimated net worth of $8 million
Stephen Sackur Career
Stephen hosts the HARDtalk, a current affairs interview program that airs on both BBC News Channel and BBC World News. For the show, he got to be named the “International TV Personality of the Year” by the Association for International Broadcasting in 2010.
He then got nominated for “Speech Broadcaster of the Year” at the Sony Radio Awards. He is known to have interviewed President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Shimon Peres of Israel, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, President Jalal Talabani of Iraq, US Vice-President Al Gore, and former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, among others.
He as well served as a BBC television host as of 2005, hosting HARDtalk. Initially, he joined the network as a trainee. Four years later, he got hired as one of its foreign affairs correspondents and started reporting on Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution.
He got based in Cairo and Egypt for three years before relocating to Jerusalem as of 1995 to 1997. He aired the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the 2000 presidential election in the United States, the Gulf War, and eight weeks with the British Army.
He is as well a podcaster, hosting the BBC Network’s HARDtalk podcast. The podcast has now aired over 300 episodes and has been awarded 4.5 out of 5 stars.