Lyse Doucet

Lyse Doucet was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada and is a senior BBC presenter and special correspondent. She works for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, and also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the UK, including reporting on Newsnight. She has a Master's degree in International Relations from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts Honors Degree from Queen's University at Kingston. She also has an honorary doctorate in Civil Law from the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from University College at the University of Toronto, an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of New Brunswick and an honorary doctorate in journalism from Universite de Moncton. She is a fluent speaker of English, French and Farsi. Lyse joined the BBC in the early 1980s in West Africa, and was based in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast for five years. She reported from Pakistan in 1988, and was based