| Martine Dennis | |
| Birth Date: | 1961 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | London |
| Occupation: | Newsreader, Journalist, news presenter |
| Children: | 2 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Credits: | The World Today |
Martine Dennis is a British news anchor. She was most recently a presenter with Al Jazeera English, and before that BBC World News.
Martine Dennis was born on 28 January 1961 in London to Caribbean/Mauritian parents. She read English and American Studies from 1979 to 1982 at Keele University in England and Dar es salaam.
Martine began her broadcasting career as a graduate trainee at LBC/IRN in London in 1983. She specialised in parliamentary reporting, but also made radio documentaries, notably: Zimbabwe - Five Years after Independence. She also covered the 1985 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), held in Nassau in the Bahamas, interviewing, among others: Rajiv Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Edward Seaga.
Later in 1985, she joined BBC World Service radio at the United Nations, in New York, covering the Iran–Iraq war and interviewing a number of world leaders.
In 1987 she became a presenter-producer for Focus on Africa, the BBC African Service, based at Bush House in London and in 1989 Martine became a presenter, reporter and producer at Sky News, London. She was an overnight news presenter until 1991 when she went to South Africa. In South Africa she freelanced for BBC World Service, covering South Africa's first democratic election.
In 1994 she became the presenter of Carte Blanche, South Africa's top weekly current affairs feature programme. In 1995, Martine returned to London to work on current affairs programmes, including Correspondent.
In 2014 Martine left the BBC World News to go to Al Jazeera after 20 years at the corporation.
Martine Dennis is a mother of two children.