Mehdi Hasan

Speaker Medhi Hasan is founder of media company Zeteo. He presented The Mehdi Hasan Show on Peacock from October 2020 and on MSNBC from February 2021 until November 2023. He joined The Guardian as columnist in 2024.

Formerly the Senior Editor at The New Statesman, Mehdi Hasan is renowned and respected for his balanced left of centre view on everything from UK local policy to the European economy and the Arab Spring.

As former Political Editor of the UK version of The Huffington Post, Mehdi’s fascinating interviews with some of the UK’s best known names from all walks of public life were always insightful and intriguing.

In his best selling book, Summer of Unrest: the Debt Delusion, Mehdi brilliantly picks apart official UK Treasury propaganda.

Co author of a highly acclaimed biography of Ed Miliband, Mehdi started his career as a TV news producer. His effervescent wit and intelligence ensures his regular apearances on BBC1’s Question Time and The Big Question. In addition to frequently presenting on LBC radio, has contributed to The Guardian and The Times’ comment pages, as well hosting programmes on Al Jazeera English.

Mehdi Hasan is based in Washington DC where he is a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University.