Ian Pannell is chief foreign correspondent for ABC News, stationed in
the London Bureau.

Throughout his storied 30-plus-year career as a journalist, Pannell
has been on the frontlines covering some of the most important and
compelling stories across the world. As Russia invaded Ukraine earlier
this year, he reported from Kyiv as the first missile strike hit and
has spent months on the ground documenting the tragic developments and
the devastating impact on the people inside the country.

During his tenure at ABC News, he has reported on the United States’
withdrawal from Afghanistan, the battle against the Islamic State
group (IS) in Iraq and Syria, the fight to retake Mosul, the killing
of U.S. soldiers in Niger, the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico, and the
fight and famine in Yemen.

Prior to joining ABC News in 2017, Pannell worked at the BBC for over
25 years. When the Taliban fled Afghanistan in 2001, he was the very
first journalist to enter the capital, Kabul, with the U.S.-backed
Northern Alliance and was stationed there from 2008-2010 for the BBC.
He was in Kabul the day it was liberated, and he was there for ABC
News 20 years later when it fell to the Taliban once more. He reported
from Egypt, Bahrain, Libya and Syria on the Arab Spring uprisings and
subsequent wars, the frontlines of Crimea and Donbas in 2014 and 2015,
and extensively across the Middle East. He also covered the
Israel-Lebanon War in 2006 and reported from Gaza during the
Hamas-Israel conflict in 2014.

Pannell has pursued enterprise reports in the United States and Latin
America. In the U.S., he covered the heroin epidemic, the lives of
families affected by homelessness, the trafficking of children into a
lifetime of forced sex slavery and the rising gun crime in Chicago.
While in Latin America, he covered the war on drugs affecting
Columbia’s cocaine business.

His reporting has won many major awards in journalism. He was awarded
an International Emmy® for his contribution to covering the conflict
between Hezbollah and Israel, the Royal Television Society Award for
International News Coverage on his 2013 report of Syrian rebel-held
areas, and an International Press Award for his enterprise stories on
displaced families in Syria. Pannell has been honored with several
Emmys and Peabody Awards for his excellence in reporting. He also
holds several other awards for his dedication to honest, authentic
storytelling.

Pannell began his career working in radio at the BBC and went on to
anchor news shows for BBC World as well as its domestic equivalent in
the U.K., The BBC News Channel. He is married and the proud father of
three boys.
