David Roderick Shukman (born 30 May 1958, St Pancras, London, England) is the BBC's Environment and Science Correspondent.
His father is Harold Shukman, a Russian scholar at St Antony's College, Oxford (who retired in 1998), and his mother was a vicar, and also a Russian scholar of writers such as Alexander Men (a Russian theologian). He has a younger brother and sister. He attended the Dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, then read Geography at Durham University (Hatfield College), gaining a BA.
He worked at the Coventry Evening Telegraph from 1980–3 and joined the BBC in 1983. He was a Northern Ireland reporter from 1985–7 (at a busy time in Northern Ireland's history), then the Defence Correspondent (TV) from 1987–95. From 1995–9 he was the European Correspondent, and broadening his coverage in 1999, he became the World Affairs Correspondent until 2003. In 2003, he became the Environment and Science Correspondent.
He married Jessica Pryce-Jones in August 1988 in Powys, Wales, and they have two sons (born December 1989 and April 1992) and one daughter (born November 1994).