Bill Gillespie is CBC Radio's Correspondent in Moscow. Since September 11th, however, he has reported extensively from Afghanistan. He was in Afghanistan when the first American bombs began to fall. He followed the Northern Alliance army as it swept the Taliban from power. More recently, he did the first interviews since the Korean War with Canadian soldiers returning from combat.

In Moscow, Bill has been reporting on Russia's struggle to shed its Soviet past and become a European-style democracy. Central to the stories is Vladimir Putin and the Putin-inspired transformation of Russian - U.S. relations. Other stories have chronicled Putin's less successful attempts to change the Russian bureaucracy's Soviet mind-set.

Before he was assigned to Moscow, Bill worked in Toronto as a national reporter for CBC Radio. He covered the rise of the Harris government and the Kreever inquiry into the tainted blood tragedy.

He started his career in St. John's, Newfoundland as a television reporter. He joined CBC's Parliamentary Bureau in 1989 as a reporter and occasional host of The House.

Bill has won several awards for his coverage of the environment and homelessness. He is also the author of a book titled A Class Act: An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

He holds a masters degree in labour history from Memorial University of Newfoundland.