Tom Soufi Burridge

Tom Soufi Burridge is a foreign correspondent for ABC News, based in Paris.

For the past 20 years, Burridge has worked at leading media organizations, covering major global events, including the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon. He has been based in the United States, Ukraine, Kenya, France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Ecuador and speaks fluent Spanish, French and a useful level of Russian.

Burridge joined ABC News in 2022, and since then, his reporting has helped document evidence of Russian war crimes in eastern Ukraine as well as the scale of the human cost of the war across that country. He has also helped drive ABC News’ coverage on the scale of human suffering in Gaza and the plight of hostages and their families in Israel.

Burridge started his career at BBC News in 2004, where he quickly rose to the level of foreign correspondent and covered the killing of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, major terror attacks in Europe, and the global financial crisis of 2008 and its impact across the European continent. He also worked as the BBC’s transportation correspondent, publishing exclusive investigations into major infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom and leading coverage of the Being 737-Max scandal.

Burridge is married and has three children.