Forrest Sawyer

Forrest Sawyer has had a diverse career, first as one of America's most respected television journalists, and more recently as an entrepreneur in innovative health care.

Sawyer is today an advisor and board member of Edison Pharmaceuticals, the world leader in the study of mitochondrial disease. He is also a co-founder of Ampere Life Sciences, a newly launched company developing medical and functional foods targeting antioxidant deficiencies. In addition to unique research and development programs, both companies are building innovative communication platforms. He leads Sawyer Media, focusing on integrating traditional and new media production with digital technologies.

As a journalist, Sawyer has over 24 years of experience reporting from around the world. He is a veteran of ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC News, and PBS. He has anchored the ABC magazine programs "Day One" and "Turning Point," as well as "World News Sunday" and "Good Morning America." For a decade, Sawyer was the primary replacement anchor on ABC's "Nightline." He has also reported for PBS's "Frontline" and produced and reported various acclaimed programs such as a Discovery initiative on violence in America. Sawyer joined NBC News in October 2000, where he served as an anchor and contributor for both the broadcast network and MSNBC.

Sawyer is a veteran war correspondent, having reported on every United States action over the past two decades. In 1990 and 1991, he spent eight months covering the Gulf War, scoring numerous exclusives from Baghdad to Saudi Arabia to Iran; including reports from inside Kuwait City before it was liberated by coalition forces. He has covered major international conflicts, including the Persian Gulf war, the air war against Yugoslavia, and provided the first live television report from a battlefield. His world travels include reports from the Oklahoma City terrorist attack, a report from inside KGB headquarters on the Lee Harvey Oswald Soviet intelligence file, and the attempted coup of Manuel Noriega in Panama. Sawyer's work has carried him throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Over the course of two decades as a national journalist, Sawyer has reported extensively on the impact of human activity on the environment. His reports have included an examination of deforestation in the Amazon; water issues in the Everglades; a week-long Discovery Television series on increased tornado and storm activity and several reports on climate change. Sawyer has received numerous accolades throughout his career, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, seven National Emmy Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Associated Press Award, an Ohio State Award, an Ark Award, and two American Psychological Association Awards.

Sawyer has a Master of Education degree from the University of Florida, as well as extensive post-graduate work in environmental science. His Bachelor of Arts degree, also from the University of Florida, is in Eastern philosophy and world religions.