Lyse Doucet receives her honorary degree - January 2012

• published: 28 Feb 2012
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Lyse Doucet is a Senior Presenter and Correspondent for BBC World News TV and BBC World Service radio who is often deployed to anchor special news coverage from the field and interview world leaders. Lyse also reports across the BBC including for BBC Newsnight. She played a key role in the BBC's coverage of the 'Arab Spring' across the Middle East and North Africa. She is a regular visitor to Afghanistan and Pakistan from where she has been reporting for the past two decades. Her work has also focused on major natural disasters including the Indian Ocean tsunami, and more recently the Pakistan floods. Before joining the BBC's team of presenters in 1999, Lyse spent 15 years as a BBC foreign correspondent with postings in Jerusalem, Amman, Kabul, Islamabad, Tehran and Abidjan. She was nominated for two Emmy awards in the United States last year. Her most recent awards include a Peabody and David Bloom Award for her television films from Afghanistan, and Radio News Journalist of the Year at the Sony Radio Academy Awards in the UK. Born in eastern Canada, Lyse is a Council Member of the International Council on Human Rights policy, an honorary patron of Canadian Crossroads International, and a member of Friends of Aschiana UK which supports working street children in Afghanistan.