11 Facts About Mark Lowen

Mark Lowen is a British journalist who works for BBC News as a correspondent in Southern Europe based in Rome.

Mark Lowen was previously based in Turkey, Greece and Serbia.

Mark Lowen moved to Rome in 2019 and is often deployed elsewhere on major stories.

Mark Lowen joined the BBC's Paris bureau in 2005 as an intern, becoming a producer, followed by the BBC World Service in London in 2007 and BBC World News in 2008.

Mark Lowen became the BBC Balkans correspondent based in Belgrade in 2009, covering the former republics of Yugoslavia and Albania, during which time he reported on the first elections in Kosovo since independence, the trial of Radovan Karadzic, and the arrest of the former Commander-in-Chief of the Bosnian Serb Army, Ratko Mladic.

Mark Lowen became BBC Athens correspondent in autumn 2011, replacing Malcolm Brabant, who had become seriously ill following a routine inoculation against yellow fever.

Mark Lowen covered Greece's financial crisis before moving to Istanbul in 2014.

Mark Lowen was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year at the Royal Television Society awards, 2013.

Mark Lowen is currently a presenter of OS on the BBC World Service.

Mark Lowen's mother is the British actress Eve Karpf and his grandmother was Natalia Karp, nee Weissman, a Jewish refugee from the Nazis and Holocaust survivor, whose story he told in a BBC broadcast and online report.

In December 2022, Penim announced that he and Mark Lowen had a daughter, born via surrogacy in Canada.