Gordon Corera is a British journalist. He is the Security Correspondent for the BBC.
Corera studied modern history at St Peter's College, Oxford,[1] followed by graduate studies in US foreign policy at Harvard University.[2] He then worked on the re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton.[2]
Corera joined the BBC in 1997 as a researcher and later became a reporter. He worked on Radio 4's The World Tonight, BBC2's Newsnight, and worked in the US as the BBC's State Department correspondent[1] and as an analyst for the BBC's coverage of the 2000 US presidential election. In 2001 he became the foreign reporter for Radio 4's Today program.[2] He was appointed BBC News' security correspondent in 2004.[1]
Corera presented the 2009 Radio 4 program MI6: A Century in the Shadows, a three part history of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.[3]
Corera wrote Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network, September 2006. ISBN 0195304950, about Abdul Qadeer Khan and Pakistan's nuclear programme.
He wrote the introduction to Omar Nasiri's book Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story.