Kirsteen Anne "Kirsty" Wark FRSE (born 3 February 1955) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist with a long career at the BBC.

Starting on BBC Radio Scotland, where she became a producer, Wark switched to television, presenting The Late Show and Newsnight, as well as hosting her own interview programme and launching a production company.

Her father served in the Second Battalion of the Glasgow Highlanders during the Second World War and was awarded a Military Cross for heroism during the Normandy Landings.

Wark has been visible and vocal in the media about her experience of menopause and helped to raise awareness of this aspect of women's health more widely.

In the June 2023 Graduation Ceremonies at University of St Andrews, Wark was awarded Doctor of Letters (DLitt),[16] in recognition of her outstanding career in journalism and broadcasting.

Questioned by the Fraser Inquiry, set up to investigate the building's cost overruns, she said: "There was no way that we were making a decision on economically the most advantageous tender; you would have ended up with a shed .

[21] In January 2005, she invited Labour MSP Jack McConnell, then Scotland's First Minister, and his family to stay at her Majorcan holiday home over the New Year period.

[22] McConnell, a long-time friend of Wark and husband Clements before holding office, was cleared of any improprieties when the Scottish Parliament's Standards Committee deemed he received no financial benefits from the holidays.

[24] In June 2007, Wark clashed with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond in an interview,[25] over his response to a memorandum of understanding between the UK Government and Libya regarding prisoner exchanges.

Salmond feared that this could include Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted by a Scottish court in the Netherlands for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie.

[28] According to Newsnight editor Peter Barron, time constraints forced Wark to end the questioning abruptly, leading him to perceive her behaviour as "rude and dismissive".

[28] In October 2013, Wark interviewed Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald about his reporting of the NSA and GCHQ cyber-spying programs leaked by Edward Snowden.

[29] The interview was seen as openly hostile in which "Wark unabashedly made the case for the prosecution, interrogating Greenwald about his reporting and Edward Snowden.

The documentary aired several months after the end of the trial and featured both supporters and detractors of Alex Salmond reflecting on the case.

[35] In October 2023 Wark was widely criticized when she interviewed Husam Zomlot, the head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom, a politician with no ties whatsoever to Hamas.

[38] Wark married television producer Alan Clements (born 1961) in September 1989,[39] after meeting on the BBC Scotland programme Left, Right, and Centre.

[40] They founded independent TV production company Wark-Clements in 1990, which in May 2004 was merged with fellow Scots broadcaster Muriel Gray's Ideal World to form IWC Media.