Alun Drake

Alun Drake studied PPE at Jesus College, Oxford, before taking a journalism diploma at University College Cardiff. In 1983 he joined the BBC as a News Trainee, going on to work as a scriptwriter on the main national TV news bulletins in London. After seven years as a reporter with Central TV in Birmingham, he joined the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, promoting its work for human rights, democracy and the rule of law.