Jim Sciutto is ABC News’ Senior Foreign correspondent, based in London. Since moving overseas in 2002, he has reported from more than 40 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where he’s completed more than 100 assignments. His globe-trotting role for ABC News has put him on multiple trips to war-zones from Iraq to Afghanistan to Israel-Palestine, undercover in Zimbabwe and Myanmar, under fire in Beslan, Russia, and on frenetic cross-country tours of China and India for special, multi-part ABC series. When he was named senior foreign correspondent in 2006, he was the first person to carry the title since Peter Jennings and Pierre Salinger.

Sciutto won the 2007 George Polk Award for television for his undercover reporting in Myanmar during the military regime’s brutal crackdown on peaceful demonstrations in October 2007. He won Emmy awards in 2004 and 2005 for best story in a regularly scheduled newscast, covering northern Iraq for “Iraq: Where Things Stand.” He was nominated for other Emmys in 2005 for outstanding coverage of a breaking news story for “Crisis in Beslan” and in 2007 for his contribution from Cambodia for Good Morning America’s “Around the World” series.

Sciutto was the only western reporter to make his way inside Myanmar during the 2007 crackdown, the first television reporter to interview Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and one of a handful of journalists allowed inside an Iranian nuclear plant in 2005. During the Iraq war, Sciutto was the only reporter embedded with the U.S. Special Forces.

Prior to joining ABC News in 1998, Sciutto was Hong Kong correspondent for Asia Business News, an Asia-wide TV network owned by Dow Jones. For ABN, he covered Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, and reported on every country in the region, including assignments to China, Mongolia, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea.

Sciutto’s first job in television was as moderator and producer of “The Student Press,” a weekly public affairs talk show for U.S. and Canadian college students broadcast on PBS.

Sciutto earned a degree in history from Yale University in 1992. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Hong Kong from 1993 to 1994. In 2008, he was selected as a lifetime member of the Council of Foreign Relations. In 2002, he was appointed Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale.

He lives in London with his wife, Gloria Riviera, also a London-based correspondent for ABC News.