Jon Snow is one of England's most acclaimed journalists, currently employed by ITN and Channel 4 television, and most recognised for fronting Channel 4 News.

Born in Sussex, England in 1947, Snow began his journalism career in radio, and made the move into television when he joined ITN in 1976. Snow distinguished himself as the organisation's top journalist serving as a Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor before becoming the main presenter of Channel 4 News in 1989. He has won several Royal Television Society Awards, two for reports from El Salvador, one for his reporting of the Kegworth air disaster and two as "Presenter of the Year".

Snow's interest in humanitarian work reaches back to his early days before journalism, when he worked for the New Horizon Youth Centre, a day centre for young drug addicts in central London - an organisation with which he has remained involved and of which he subsequently became chairman. Snow was also an assistant to Lord Longford and for a year was a VSO volunteer in Northern Uganda, East Africa.

Snow is currently a trustee of London's National Gallery and Tate Gallery. He is also patron of the One World Broadcasting Trust, a charity which uses the media to promote global understanding.