Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet A presenter and correspondent for BBC World television and BBC World Service radio, Ms Doucet is often deployed to anchor special news coverage from the field and to interview world leaders.

In recent years, her work has taken her to Pakistan for the South Asian earthquake, India and Indonesia to present extensive coverage of the aftermath of the tsunami disaster, and to the West Bank city of Ramallah for the illness and death of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. She played a key role in the BBC's coverage of the war in Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2001.

In 2001, Lyse was awarded a Silver Sony Award for News Broadcaster of the Year. In 2002 she and her team were nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for their exclusive coverage of the attempted assassination of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Lyse is also a regular presenter on the BBC's Talking Point programme broadcast on television, on radio and online.

Before joining the BBC's team of presenters in 1999, she spent 15 years as a BBC foreign correspondent. She spent five years in West Africa, based in Abidjan. She later lived in Kabul and Islamabad, and was a frequent visitor to Tehran. Her last postings took her to Amman and then Jerusalem for several years.

Born in eastern Canada, in Brunswick, Lyse has an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, a Master's Degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto and a BA Honours Degree from Queen's University at Kingston. She is a Council member of the International Council on Human Rights Policy.

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