Martyn Bond

The proceeds of his first magazine, which he edited while still at school, bought him a typewriter. After reading Modern Languages at Cambridge University, he took his PhD at Sussex and Hamburg Universities, comparing British and German broadcasting. He went to the BBC after university in 1966 and trained first in the World Service and later in TV Presentation and the Education services. After a short spell as a university lecturer in Northern Ireland he went to Brussels where he worked in the Press Office of the Council of Ministers of the European Community from 1974 to 1981. He was BBC Correspondent in Berlin for the next two years, and then went back to Brussels to work in the Council Secretariat until 1989 when he moved to London to be the Representative of the European Parliament in the UK for the next ten years. Since 1999, Martyn has been a freelance journalist working on European issues for the BBC Parliament Channel and for various journals, as well as running the Federal Trust for Education and Research, an independent think tank specialising in European affairs. He joined the Board of the London Press Club in 2000.