Formerly CNN's bureau chief in Brussels and a senior international correspondent for 12 years Patricia Kelly is responsible for establishing the CNN network brand and presence in the Benelux, Scandinavia and Switzerland.

Currently in demand as a media trainer, event host and conference moderator, she has also lectured in media relations and crisis management in command and control warfare at Nato training establishments in Norway, Germany, Belgium and Italy.

Her broadcast clients range from the BBC to Aljazeera and France 24 and she writes and reports for a variety of newspapers and magazines.

One of the pioneers of 24-hour television reporting and as CNN's primary correspondent for Europe, Kelly led news teams to war zones in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo and peace talks in Serbia and Geneva. She planned and implemented all aspects of CNN's round-the-clock coverage of 1999's Nato air strikes as well as reporting live from Nato HQ on a daily basis throughout the conflict.

Kelly played a major role in CNN's award-winning coverage of the Gulf War, the collapse of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, the break-down of former Yugoslavia and the enlargement of the EU and Nato. She initiated CNN coverage of the World Economic Forum in Davos and initiated and developed CNN coverage of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague.