Mishal Husain
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Mishal Husain (sometimes spelt Mishal Hussein) (born 1973) is currently an anchor for the BBC's international news channel BBC World, presenting between 1300 and 1600 GMT each Monday to Thursday, as well as appearing on the BBC One weekend bulletins. She was previously a presenter on the BBC News talk show HARDtalk Extra and on BBC Breakfast.
[edit] Biography
Husain was born in the United Kingdom, but grew up in the United Arab Emirates. She returned to the UK to attend Cobham Hall, an independent school school in Cobham, Kent, when she was 12 years old. Her family originates from Pakistan and she maintains close links with the country.
Husain spent six months living in Russia (having studied Russian at school) and taught English in Moscow as well as taking the opportunity to travel through Russia and states of the former Soviet Union including remote regions such as Uzbekistan and Georgia.
She read Law at Cambridge University and graduated in 1995. After this she completed a Master's degree in International and Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, producing a thesis on the legal status of Bosnian refugees in Europe.
She is married with three sons: her eldest was born in 2004 and she had twin boys on Monday 19 June 2006. She returned from maternity leave to present the evening news on Sunday 17 December 2006.
[edit] Professional career
Husain gained her first experience of journalism, at the age of 18, working in Pakistan's English language newspaper The News.
Her first job was at Bloomberg Television in London, where she spent two years. She joined the BBC in 1998 and since then has worked in a variety of roles: in the BBC’s Economics and Business Unit, as the corporation's Washington correspondent, on the daily Breakfast programme, on the Asia Business Report (based in Singapore), and as a presenter of business news on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.
She is widely respected as an incisive and intelligent interviewer and has interviewed many high-profile figures including: Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy US Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Pentagon adviser Richard Perle, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, and Israel's former Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
