Martin Geissler

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Martin Geissler is Africa Correspondent for ITV News since May 2006. He joined the ITV News team in April 2002 from STV Central's regional news programme Scotland Today.

For four years Martin was primarily Scotland Correspondent for ITV News but also covered several foreign assignments including the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina.

In 1998 he joined Sky Sports as Scotland correspondent for 18 months before returning to STV.

Since working at ITV News, Martin has covered the Iraq war, the Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina.

Martin left George Watson's College in Edinburgh in 1989 and passed on university in favour of a job in the Sky News Scotland bureau, then STV North in Aberdeen. He later joined ITV Tyne Tees in Newcastle as a reporter, then stv central in February 1994, where he was a reporter, as well as presenting on both the lunchtime and evening news.

Martin, 37 years old, is married to Teresa. They have an eight-year-old daughter, Daisy and a five-year-old boy, Douglas. He supports Scottish Premier League football club, Heart of Midlothian