Stuart Ramsay

Chief Correspondent

 

Stuart Ramsay is Sky News’ Chief Correspondent reporting on all major world events. A multi-award winning journalist, he is currently based in Dubai. Stuart has covered 16 wars during his 20-year career at Sky News. His most recent undercover reports from inside the Syrian city of Homs, have earned him worldwide acclaim.

Throughout 2011, Stuart reported on the Arab Spring in Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. His discovery of mutilated and burned bodies in a Gaddafi military compound on the outskirts of Tripoli has been credited with ensuring that a UN war crimes investigation, into events in Libya, was instigated.

Stuart has been nominated for three Emmys and won in 2009 for his reports from Pakistan’s Swat Valley. The reports also secured a Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year award, the broadcast award for Best News Programme and the first of his two Bafta nominations.

Stuart was the 2009 London Press Club, Broadcasting Journalist of the Year, secured a Monte Carlo Golden Nymph in 2006 for his coverage of the Pakistan Earthquake and in 2005 was awarded a gold medal from the New York festival with a special citation from the then UN Secretary General, Khofi Annan, for his reporting from Dafur.

Stuart's work has been recognised by the Foreign Press Association and the Bayeux War Correspondents Committee.

Stuart is Sky’s longest serving foreign correspondent having been Bureau Chief in Moscow, Washington, Africa, India and now Dubai. Stuart is married to the interior designer Toni Ramsay and they have three children.

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  1. 3:54pm UK, Wednesday May 16, 2012 Alex Crawford, special correspondent Charles Taylor, the first African leader to stand trial and be convicted of war crimes, has told judges that he and his family are also victims of the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone

  2. Charles Taylor

    Taylor says the charges against him are all "lies" 1:25am UK, Thursday April 26, 2012 Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will learn whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison later after an historic five year-long war crimes trial in The

  3. Vitaly Petrov of Russia and Renault heads a train of cars during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix at the Bahrain International Circuit on March 14, 2010

    The Bahrain Grand Prix was first held in 2004 - it was cancelled last year 3:34pm UK, Friday April 20, 2012 Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent :: Sky News has been denied access to Bahrain ahead of the Grand Prix on Sunday, so chief correspondent Stuart

  4. Afghan protesters

    More protests took place over the burning of Korans than the killing of 16 civilians 9:07pm UK, Thursday March 15, 2012 Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent It has become something of a common phenomenon throughout the 'Arab Spring' that Friday prayers pre

  5. Afghan protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans during a demonstration in Jalalabad province.

    9:21pm UK, Tuesday March 13, 2012 Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent There is a real anger in Afghanistan and it is not new. The presence of foreign soldiers has been burning into the psyche of many Afghans for years. The street demonstrations in Jalalab

  6. 4:51am UK, Tuesday March 13, 2012 The American soldier accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan had suffered a traumatic brain injury on an earlier tour in Iraq, according to a US official. The 38-year-old army staff sergeant, who has been in the m

  7. Bing Maps Kandahar and Afghanistan

    10:51pm UK, Monday March 12, 2012 The US soldier accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan had suffered a traumatic brain injury on an earlier tour in Iraq, according to a US official. The army staff sergeant was seriously injured when he was in a v

  8. Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard at US base in Kandahar after soldier rampage

    Afghan soldiers stand guard outside the US base in Kandahar after the sergeant's rampage 9:15pm UK, Monday March 12, 2012 Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent It is always the same when you visit Kabul in the midst of one crisis or another. The tension is

  9. Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay on Paul Conroy and the situation in Homs 3:41pm UK, Tuesday February 28, 2012 The French journalist Edith Bouvier has been safely evacuated from Syria to Lebanon, French president Nicolas Sarkozy has said. News

  10. 3:45pm UK, Sunday February 26, 2012 Stuart Ramsay, chief correspondent The reality of Referendum Day in Syria is that more people are dying at the hands of the government's security forces as they continue to attack towns across the country. As President