Nik Gowing founded the Thinking the Unthinkable project in 2014. He is co-author of Thinking the Unthinkable (2018) and a Director of Think Unthinkable Ltd.

Nik was a main news presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline London, plus location coverage.  

He is a Visiting Professor at Kings College London and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

He was on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-Economics, and an adviser on leadership challenges to the President of the UN General Assembly.

Nik was on the council of Chatham House. He is a trustee of the Royal United Services Institute.

His peer-reviewed study at Oxford University ‘Skyful of Lies and Black Swans’ (2009) predicted what is now labelled ‘Fake News’. It identified the new vulnerability and brittleness of institutional power in the new all-pervasive public information space.