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Broadcaster and correspondent, BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television.
Award-winning broadcaster Lyse Doucet spent 15 years as a BBC foreign correspondent, living in the Ivory Coast and Afghanistan, before becoming a London-based presenter in 1999, appearing regularly on BBC radio and television. Doucet has covered some of the world’s most significant events of recent years (wars in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, the Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquake in South Asia), and has interviewed the likes of Kofi Annan, Hamid Karzai and King Abdullah of Jordan. Born in Canada, she is also active in a number of charitable human rights and social development organisations.
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