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SCOTT HEIDLER
New York-based Al Jazeera English Correspondent
Seasoned international correspondent Scott Heidler is based in New York for the network covering the United Nations and other major stories from the Americas that have included; President Obama’s first visit to see the devastation from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the UN Security Council's dealings with uprisings in the Middle East, the foreclosure crisis and the end of the NASA Space Shuttle Program.

Scott's broadcast journalism career began at a time and place that would prove to be historic for the industry. He was hired by CNN's Washington bureau just before the start of the Gulf War in 1991.

Prior to joining Al Jazeera English in 2010 he served as an international correspondent for Fox News Channel based out of Islamabad, covering Pakistan and Afghanistan. He covered the November 2007 Pakistani State of Emergency, scoring an exclusive interview with President Musharraf and sat down with Benazir Bhutto just weeks before her assassination. He has also exclusively interviewed Pakistani Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani, former US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad, embedded with the Pakistani Army in the tribal areas and with the US Army in Afghanistan along the Pakistani border.

His South Asia posting came after nearly three years covering the Middle East where he reported for Fox News Channel and for Fox News Radio. While in the region, Scott covered history including the Israeli pullout from Gaza, the Saddam Hussein trial/execution, the conflict from inside Gaza, Hamas' Palestinian election victory, sectarian violence in Beirut and the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Prior to his posting in the Middle East, he served as Fox News Channel's Kabul Correspondent and Bureau Chief. This after working in Iraq with Fox News Channel for a collective nine months in 2003 to 2005. In Kabul, Scott reported on the lead up to the first free presidential election in Afghanistan and hosted live TV coverage of President Karzai's inauguration. He spent a year and a half in Afghanistan.

In his years between CNN and his work in Pakistan, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Afghanistan with Fox News, he has covered stories in Central America and Asia for National Geographic Channel. He has also used his journalistic talents working/volunteering for humanitarian organizations in Guatemala, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mongolia, and Pakistan.
Scott is also a published author and writer, contributing to foxnews.com, nationalgeographic.com and has reported for New York Daily News, and The Times of London.

With photographer Katherine Kiviat, his wife, Scott published a book on the plight of Afghan women entitled "Parwana." The book profiles 40 women from all walks of life and how they are affecting change as they become active participants in their country for the first time in decades. Five thousand copies of the book were donated to all girls' high schools in Afghanistan. The project was funded by USAID, the US Embassy in Kabul and Kodak USA. Images and interviews from the book have been on display in Kabul (Foundation for Culture and Civil Society), New York (Redux Pictures Gallery) and London (Lancaster House).

"Parwana" was picked up by US publisher Gibbs-Smith who released an English version of the book Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan in September 2007.
The book was awarded Editor's Choice for best non-fiction in the ForeWard Magazine's 2007 book of the year contest.
It also received a Bronze Medal in the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards, Women's Affairs category.

Scott is based is New York City with his wife and son.