Andrew Harding is a British journalist and author. He has been living and working abroad as a foreign correspondent for the past 3 decades. Since 1994 he has been working for BBC News.

He began his career in the former Soviet Union, initially as a freelancer. After a decade living in Moscow and Tbilisi, he moved to Nairobi, then Singapore, Bangkok and now Johannesburg. He is married with three sons. 

Andrew has reported on the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia's parliamentary rebellion, the Asian tsunami and west Africa's Ebola outbreak. He has covered many conflicts, most recently in Ukraine, but also in Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Burma, Darfur, DR Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, South Sudan, Cote D'Ivoire, CAR, Burundi, Uganda, Libya and elsewhere.

In March 2023 Andrew travelled to Ukraine as one of the BBC’s frontline correspondents, reporting from the Donbas and elsewhere. He has returned repeatedly since then. It was a story he filed on the aftermath of a small battle in southern Ukraine that led him to write his latest book, A Small, Stubborn Town.

Andrew has been living in South Africa since 2009. He reported on the Oscar Pistorius trial in Pretoria. It was partly that experience that prompted him to search for another murder case, that might dig deeper under the skin of modern South Africa. Early in 2016 he read about an incident in the Free State and decided to investigate. The result, four years later, was his award-winning new book, These Are Not Gentle People, and BBC Radio 4 series, Blood Lands.

Andrew has been visiting Somalia since 2000, and was in Mogadishu during the height of the battle against the Islamist militants of Al Shabab and during the famine of 2011. He is one of the very few foreign journalists to have travelled into territory controlled by Al Shabab and met their commanders, or to have visited (twice) the pirate town of Eyl. His experiences led him to write the internationally-acclaimed non-fiction book, The Mayor of Mogadishu.