Frank Gardner
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Frank Gardner is the BBC's full-time Security Correspondent, reporting for TV and radio on issues of both domestic and international security, notably on Al-Qaeda-related terrorism. In 2004, Frank was shot six times at close range by Al-Qaeda terrorists in Saudi Arabia and his cameraman was killed. After many months in hospital he returned to the BBC to resume his job. He is a fluent Arabist with a degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from Exeter University and he spent nine years as an investment banker in New York, London and Bahrain before switching to journalism in 1995 and becoming the BBC's Middle East Correspondent based in Cairo. He has reported extensively on terrorism and security from all over the Middle East as well as Europe, the United States, Guantanamo Bay and the Horn of Africa.
As a speaker, Frank has a fascinating story to tell about his determination to move on and has also written a book, Blood and Sand, which is a remarkable snapshot of the Middle East over a number of years and the poignant story of what can happen to your belief system when the culture you have embraced ends up trying to kill you.
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