Event: In conversation with Peter Greste

Peter Greste is an award-winning journalist and correspondent. He has worked for a number of news organisations including Reuters and the BBC before joining Al-Jazeera's English news channel.

An experienced correspondent, Peter started out reporting on Bosnia and South Africa, then moved on to cover Afghanistan, Latin America, and the Middle East. He was the BBC's Kabul correspondent in 1995, where he watched the Taliban emerge, and he returned after the US-led invasion in 2001. Since 2009 he has been based in Nairobi, Kenya, from where he has covered the East Africa with a particular focus on Somalia. His documentary, Somalia: Land of Anarchy, won a Peabody Award in 2011.

In December 2013 Greste and two Al-Jazeera colleagues, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, were arrested in Cairo on charges that included aiding a terrorist group.  Greste was deported after spending 400 days in an Egyptian jail but is still facing criminal charges, alongside Fahmy and Mohamed, in an ongoing trial.

At the 2014 Walkley Awards, whist incarcerated in Cairo, Greste took out the Walkley for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism, recognising his courageous and ongoing fight, not only for his personal freedom, but also for a free press and open democracy. Earlier this year he was recognised with a Disruptive Innovator's Award in New York for his defence of freedom of speech, while he and his colleagues were handed a Royal Television Society Award in London for their stand. Follow Peter Greste on Twitter @PeterGreste