Martin Geissler
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Martin Geissler is Africa Correspondent for ITV News, a position he took up in May 2006. He joined the ITV News team in April 2002 from stv central's regional news programme Scotland Today, where he was a news reporter and presenter.
For the past four years Martin was primarily Scotland Correspondent for ITV News but also covered several foreign assignments including the Iraq war and Hurricaine Katrina.
In 1998 he joined Sky Sports as Scotland correspondent where he was for 18 months before returning to stv.
Since working at ITV News, most recently Martin has been reporting from Kuwait on the military build-up to a potential war against Iraq. Martin has also reported on the Scottish Parliament's ban on fox-hunting, Olympic curling gold medals, Alain Baxter's skiing bronze and subsequent drugs test scandal and the arrival in Scotland of the Lockerbie bomber.
Martin left George Watson's College in Edinburgh in 1989 to go travelling. He then passed up the opportunity to go to University for a job in the Sky News Scotland bureau. He then moved on to work for stv north in Aberdeen. Following that, he moved to ITV Tyne Tees in Newcastle as a reporter, before joining stv central in February 1994, where he was a reporter, as well as presenting on both the lunchtime and evening news. He also worked on their sports bulletins.
Martin, 35 years old, is married to Teresa. They have a six year old daughter Daisy and a four year old boy Douglas.
