Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor

Shaun Waterman writes about the Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. counter-terrorist agencies, and about the al-Qaida network and other Islamic terror groups. His stories appear two to three times a week in The Washington Times.

Prior to joining UPI, Waterman worked as a senior producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s flagship evening radio news program, The World Tonight. Waterman joined the BBC in 1992 as a news trainee, and worked in local TV and radio news for three years before joining TWT team. In 1999, he was appointed to run the BBC’s American radio news desk in Washington, providing round-the-clock news from all over both American continents for the corporation’s six radio networks.

Before joining the BBC, Waterman worked as a freelance journalist and parliamentary aide, writing for numerous publications including the investigative magazine Private Eye and doing press and research work for a number of members of the British Parliament.

Waterman, who is British, has master’s degrees in social science and history from King’s College, Cambridge.