Huw Edwards (/hɪʊ, hjuː/ hiw, hew, Welsh pronunciation: [hɨu]; born 18 August 1961) is a Welsh former news presenter. He was the lead presenter of BBC News at Ten, the late evening news programme of BBC Television, from 2003 to 2023. He resigned from the BBC in 2024, during a police investigation into indecent images of children offences to which he pleaded guilty.

At the BBC, Edwards anchored coverage of state and international events, and occasionally presented on BBC News at Six, BBC News at One, BBC Weekend News, Daily Politics and the international news channel BBC World News. He presented coverage of major royal events, including the announcement and coverage of the death and state funeral of Elizabeth II and the coronation of Charles III and Camilla. He also presented BBC News at Five, which was broadcast on BBC News from 2006 until 2020. He was the lead presenter for the 2019 general election coverage.

In July 2023, Edwards was suspended by the BBC following allegations of sexual misconduct made in The Sun. The South Wales Police and the Metropolitan Police found no evidence of criminal conduct. Edwards was hospitalised with depression shortly afterwards, and resigned in April 2024. In July, he pleaded guilty to three counts of making indecent images of children by receiving them during online chats. On 16 September, he was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and was added to the sex offenders' register.

Huw Edwards was born on 18 August 1961 in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales, into a Welsh-speaking family, and, from the age of four, was brought up in Llangennech, near Llanelli. His father, Hywel Teifi Edwards, was a Plaid Cymru and Welsh language activist, and an author and academic, who was research professor of Welsh-language Literature at University College of Swansea. Edwards' mother, Aerona Protheroe, spent 30 years teaching at Llanelli's Ysgol Gyfun y Strade. He has one sister, Meinir.

Edwards was educated at Llanelli Boys' Grammar School. In 1978, he applied to Hertford College, Oxford, but was rejected. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in French from University College, Cardiff, in 1983. After his first degree, he started postgraduate work at Cardiff University in Medieval French, before becoming a reporter for local radio station Swansea Sound and then joining the BBC.

In 2018, Edwards was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, with a thesis on Welsh Nonconformist chapels in Llanelli and London, by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. His doctoral thesis was titled O Dinopolis i Fetropolis: arolwg o lanw a thrai achosion Ymneilltuol Cymraeg yn Llanelli a Llundain, 1714–2014 ("From Tinopolis to Metropolis: A Survey of the Ebb and Flow of Welsh Dissenting Causes in Llanelli and London, 1714–2014"). He said, "It's 12 years since I was here to receive an honorary fellowship which was a great day but today is an even bigger day because I am receiving my PhD after 7 agonising years of hard work on the history of the Welsh chapels in the 18th century."

Edwards spent a short time on work experience at the independent commercial radio station Swansea Sound, presenting a programme on opera and working as a newsreader. He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1984. Edwards also made regular appearances on the Welsh-language television channel S4C, working as the sub-editor and presenter of the programme Newyddion Saith from June 1985. In November 1986, he became parliamentary correspondent for BBC Cymru Wales, before being promoted to senior political correspondent at BBC News in 1988. From 1994 to 1998, Edwards was the chairman of the S4C current affairs programme Pawb a’i Farn (Everyone to his Opinion). He fronted the BBC's coverage of the 1997 Welsh devolution referendum, and coverage of the 1999 local elections in England and Wales.

Between 1994 and January 2003, Edwards presented the BBC Six O'Clock News, then the most watched news programme in Britain. In January 2003, Edwards became the main presenter of the Ten O'Clock News on BBC One, the BBC's flagship news broadcast. He also presented various special programmes such as the Festival of Remembrance. He led the BBC commentary team at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2012 London Olympics and 2014 Commonwealth Games. He presented several election specials, including coverage of the 2007 National Assembly for Wales election for BBC Wales and the BBC coverage of the results of the 2008 United States elections and the inauguration of Barack Obama. He was formerly chief political correspondent for BBC News, and spent more than 14 years reporting politics from Westminster across a range of BBC programmes.