Andrew Harding is a British foreign correspondent for BBC News and the author of three acclaimed non-fiction books. He has been living and working abroad for the past 35 years.

Andrew began his career in the former Soviet Union, initially as a freelancer. After a decade living in Moscow and Tbilisi, he moved to Nairobi, then Singapore, Bangkok, Johannesburg and now Paris. He is married with three adult sons. 

Andrew has reported on the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Asian tsunami, west Africa's Ebola outbreak and the Ukraine war. He has covered almost forty conflicts, including those in Chechnya, Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma, Darfur, DR Congo, Sierra Leone, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire, CAR, Uganda, and Libya.

In March 2023 Andrew travelled to eastern Ukraine as one of the BBC’s frontline correspondents. He has returned repeatedly since then. It was a story he filed on the aftermath of a small but decisive battle in southern Ukraine that led him to write his latest book, A Small, Stubborn Town.

Andrew lived in South Africa between 2009 and 2023. He reported on the Oscar Pistorius trial in Pretoria. It was partly that experience that prompted him to search for another murder case, that might dig deeper under the skin of modern South Africa. Early in 2016 he began investigating a double-murder in the Free State and the result, four years later, was his award-winning book, These Are Not Gentle People, and BBC Radio 4 series, Blood Lands.

Andrew has been visiting Somalia since 2000 and was in Mogadishu during the height of the battle against the Islamist militants of Al Shabab and during repeated famines. He is one of the very few foreign journalists to have travelled into territory controlled by Al Shabab and met their commanders, or to have visited (twice) the pirate town of Eyl. His experiences led him to write the internationally-acclaimed non-fiction book, The Mayor of Mogadishu.