Mishal Husain is Editor at Large for Bloomberg Weekend and host of The Mishal Husain Show, a global podcast released every Friday, with a single essential conversation for the weekend. Mishal joined Bloomberg from the BBC, where she presented its leading news programme Today on BBC Radio 4 for over a decade and was a familiar on the national TV news. Prior to that she was an anchor on the international channel BBC World News, including periods based in Washington and Singapore.

At the BBC, Mishal covered elections and referendums, including Brexit in 2016, and chaired the 2024 Prime Ministerial Debate between Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak – days before the UK public voted. She was also known for commentating on Royal occasions, including the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III.

On location, her assignments have included New York after 9/11, Washington on the night the Iraq war began in 2003, Beijing for the 2008 Olympics and Pakistan after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. She covered the 2011 uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East and the elections that brought Prime Minister Modi to power in India in 2014. That same year, she became the first journalist to enter the school in northern Pakistan attacked by the Taliban, hours after the massacre.

Mishal has presented several critically acclaimed documentaries including a series on Mahatma Gandhi, a profile of Malala Yousafzai, and “The Longest Reign,” about Queen Elizabeth II. As an interviewer she is known for high-profile and insightful conversations, from Aung San Suu Kyi to her exclusive with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their engagement in 2017, which was seen around the world. Since joining Bloomberg she has interviewed Elon Musk, Prime Ministers Mark Carney and Keir Starmer, Nobel laureate Maria Corina Machado, Salman Rushdie and Shonda Rhimes.

In 2024 she was awarded the Charles Wheeler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism by the British Journalism Review. She has also delivered the prestigious Romanes Lecture, the annual public lecture of the University of Oxford first given by Prime Minister  William Gladstone in 1892, choosing as her topic ‘Empire, Identity and the Search for Reason.’

Mishal has written two books: Broken Threads: A Family From Empire to Independence, which became a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller, and The Skills: How to Win at Work.