James Coomarasamy

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James Coomarasamy has been the BBC World Service Washington Correspondent since February 2005. He covers events throughout the United States and North America. He began his career at the BBC in the following sequence

1991 hired as production assistant in the BBC Moscow bureau and he then freelanced in Moscow as a reporter / producer,
He then got an assignment as a producer for BBC World in London.
In December 1994 he returned to Moscow as the bureau’s bi-media producer covering major stories like break-up of the Soviet Union, the war in Chechnya, the storming of the Russian White House in October 1993 and the re-election of President Yelstin.
November 1997 he moved to Warsaw to work as the local BBC correspondent covering events in Poland, the Baltics and Ukraine.
Fom 1999 to 2003, Jamie was the BBC’s Paris Reporter, covering news in the region for both radio and television outlets.

Jamie was born in London to Sri Lankan Tamil heritage and read modern and medieval Languages at Cambridge University. He is fluent in French as well as speaking some Russian and Polish. He is married to Nanette and has two children.