Richard Owen has observed the international scene as a foreign correspondent for The Times of London since 1982, most recently on a 15 year posting in Rome concluding with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the UK. After graduating in Modern Languages from Nottingham University in 1969 he was awarded an MSc with distinction in Government and Politics from the London School of Economics, followed by a PhD on Russian Politics at the LSE based on research conducted at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in California during a Harkness Fellowship in the US. He joined the BBC in 1973, working in the Overseas Service and subsequently in BBC Television current affairs before joining The Times in 1980 as an editorial writer. He served as bureau chief in Moscow from 1982, in Brussels from 1985 and in Jerusalem from 1988, during the first Palestinian Intifida and the First Gulf War. He returned to London in 1991 to become Foreign Editor of The Times for five years before returning to the field, this time in Rome, to cover Italy, the Vatican and the Mediterranean and Balkans. His publications include Crisis in the Kremlin: Soviet Succession and rise of Gorbachev, Letters from Moscow, The Times Guide to the Single European Market and The Times Guide to World Organisations. Richard Owen, who also lectures and broadcasts, won the City of Pisa prize for journalism.
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