Justin Webb is a journalist and anchor for the Radio 4 Today programme. He joined the BBC as a graduate trainee in 1984 working in Northern Ireland for BBC Radio Ulster based in Belfast, before joining Today as a reporter. He later worked as a foreign affairs correspondent based in London, followed by stints presenting BBC Breakfast news and the Six O'Clock News, and three years working as the BBC's Europe correspondent based in Brussels. He was posted to Washington as the BBC's chief radio correspondent in 2001, with his time across the Atlantic bookended by some of the most powerful events in US history, 9/11 and the election of Barack Obama.