 Aaron has been a BBC business news presenter since February 2002. He currently presents across all of the BBC television channels, including World News, the 24 hour News Channel and is part of the presenter team on BBC Breakfast, the acclaimed morning programme on BBC One. Aaron covers the latest from leading international and domestic corporate news to global finance as well as breaking major news stories. Today, Aaron continues to extensively cover and report on the global credit crunch, the billions that have been wiped off banks books and the global economic slowdown. Over the past few years Aaron has reported on the economic consequences of the global war on terrorism, the impact of record-breaking global oil prices, the collapse of the Japanese banks, the ongoing trade wars between the European Union and the United States, the battles over EU competition rules, the SARS virus and the downfall of world tourism - including the plight of the international airlines. He has also produced in-depth coverage on the crash of the Argentine economy, and corporate scandals involving the big guns from Enron and Worldcom to Italy's Parmalat. Aaron has also interviewed some of the world's biggest corporate leaders and leaders, from the World Bank, the IMF, the European Union and the World Trade Organisation. As well as business reporting, Aaron also reports for FASTTRACK, BBC World News’ weekly travel news programme. His specialty lies in the airline industry and Aaron developed and currently presents Flight Track, a weekly round-up of global airline reports. Aaron has interviewed the heads of some of the world’s largest and leading airlines, including United, British Airways, American Airlines, Qantas, Etihad, SAS, Air Canada, Qatar,Thai, Iberia, Air India, Malaysian, Emirates, Air New Zealand and Gulf Air.  Aaron began his journalistic career as a News reporter for Prime Television/Seven Network in both Sydney and Canberra. Here he gained invaluable experience in the many areas of news reporting as well as developing his abilities as a live-on-air and on-set presenter. A landmark in this initial stage of his career was the recognition of his work by the Australian National Press Club, which presented him with the prestigious and much coveted award for Best Creative Story on Tourism in 1998. The experience gained in this position set the seal on his academic pursuits and cultural empathy resulting from his extensive travel throughout Europe, Asia and the United States of America. In fact it has been his interest in foreign travel and ability to communicate with peoples from a wide mix of cultures and many different social backgrounds that has been the corner stone of his subsequent career. Following on from his work in his homeland, Aaron was appointed European Bureau Chief in London for Paramount Picture’s Real TV News. Here, he single-handedly increased the European story output to a height that had never before been achieved by the program. To attain this, Aaron was required to travel far and wide throughout Europe, researching, writing, directing, producing and shooting on location a constant flow of high impact interest material. It was as Senior Newsreader and Editor for afternoon and evening programming that Aaron made a very considerable contribution to the output of Copenhagen based CNBC Nordic. Broadcasting news on the hour to more than five and a half million homes throughout the Nordic region more than kept him busy. However, he also broadcast live scheduled inserts to the entire CNBC Pan European feed that reached no less that sixty-five million homes across the continent.
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