Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies and University of Sussex. Over 20 years in television. Formerly: has produced and hosted leading news programmes and talk shows with prominent national and international figures; covered important current issues; member, presidential press corps travelling on foreign state visits and international summits; many years as news journalist and news anchor; talk show host, Metro TV, interviews include Benazir Bhutto, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Gates, Muhamad, Yunus, President Jiang Zemin, Catherine Deneuve, Mahathir Mohamad, Anita Roddick, Cindy Crawford, Pervez Musharaf, Yukio Hatoyama, Dalai Lama, Richard Branson, Zinedine Zidane and Turkish President Abdullah Gul.