Education
Mynott was educated at the independent school Eastbourne College followed by Exeter University in 1980 with a degree in Philosophy.
Mynott was educated at the independent school Eastbourne College followed by Exeter University in 1980 with a degree in Philosophy.
Mynott first joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a trainee radio reporter in 1981 and then worked for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Leeds in the mid-1980s. Since then he has worked on The Today programme covering amongst other issues The First Gulf War(1991). He then had a spell in New York but returned in 1992 to work as a British Broadcasting Corporation News reporter.
Since then he has worked as a sports correspondent and as a South Asia correspondent from 2001.
He became British Broadcasting Corporation Nairobi correspondent in August 2004. Mynott was embedded with United States Marines during the second (2003) Gulf War.
His experiences were published in a book written by British Broadcasting Corporation correspondents. In 2009, Mynott returned to the United Kingdom and became a British Broadcasting Corporation World Affairs Correspondent.
After 3 years at G4S plc as Director of Media Relations, he joined the Chinese telecommunications company, Huawei in September 2014.