Michael Sergeant is an English author, communications consultant and former journalist who worked for the BBC, Sky News, Reuters and CNN as a political correspondent, business correspondent and general news reporter. He worked as a foreign correspondent in more than 25 countries including Iraq and Lebanon. He was the BBC's main on-air local authority expert – covering council finance, services, benefit reform, housing, planning and infrastructure. He also covered general and political stories across the UK for programmes including Today, BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel. He announced his departure from mainstream broadcasting in October 2014, joining public relations firm Headland as a client-facing director. He left Headland in 2017 to form his own communications company, Sergeant L