Jordan, who has presented across all of the BBC's main news bulletins, leaves the BBC after eight years. He joined BBC Sport as a broadcast journalist in 1998, following a three-year stint as a sports broadcaster in South Africa.
He joined BBC Television News in 1999, when he became a presenter on BBC News 24. He also presented on BBC World, becoming a special reporter for the BBC's 'One O'Clock News' and a regular presenter of all the weekend bulletins on BBC One.
Jordan was educated in the West Indies, is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and served for eight years in the Jamaican Army.
Arabic news station Al Jazeera is to launch its 24-hour English-language channel shortly. It has already hired a number of senior British broadcasters including Sir David Frost and BBC World frontman Stephen Cole last year.
The English-language channel, which could attract a global audience of up to 50m, is targeting non-Arabic speaking Arabs and others with English as a second or third language.
Jordan will join Cole at Al Jazeera's London broadcast centre, where Cole has already been named anchor.
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