Barnaby Phillips

Barnaby Phillips is Europe Correspondent for Al Jazeera English, the 24 hour international television news channel based in Doha in Qatar, and owned by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera network. He was based in the Greek capital of Athens, and has recently moved to Al Jazeera's main European base in London. He was formerly with the BBC for 15 years and from 2001 was its Southern Africa Correspondent. He has extensive experience in several continents, having reported on major news stories since the early 1990s.

Early life

Phillips spent much of his early childhood in Kenya in East Africa.

Education

Phillips was educated at Bedales School, a boarding independent school in the village of Steep, near the market town of Petersfield in Hampshire in Southern England, between the years 1981-1986,^[1] followed by the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern History, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, from which he obtained a Masters degree in African Politics and Economics.

Life and career

Phillips has worked extensively in the Middle East, West Africa, Asia and Europe and has covered major stories such as the AIDS epidemic, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, the war in Liberia and the 2002 Southern African food crises, the war in Iraq and the South Asian Tsunami.

Phillips joined the BBC's African service in 1991, remaining until 1993. He then became the BBC's stinger in Mozambique, where he learned Portuguese. In 1998, he became the BBC's Nigeria Correspondent, based in Lagos, Nigeria, and in 2001 was appointed Southern Africa Correspondent. Whilst at the BBC, he worked extensively in the Middle East, West Africa and Asia, and has covered major stories such as the AIDS epidemic, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, the wars in Liberia and Iraq, the 2002 Southern African food crises, and the South Asian Tsunami. He joined Al-Jazeera in 2006 and became its Europe Correspondent, based in the network's then second-largest bureau, in Athens.^[2] He has also reported from the Balkans and from regions outside Europe, such as the Asian area of Turkey, and on the general elections in the United States (2008) and India (2009). He moved to London in December 2010, after Al Jazeera closed its Athens bureau, to continue reporting on major European news stories.^[3][4][5] In 2011, he directed and presented made the documentary "Burma Boy", for Al Jazeera's Correspondent series.^[6] The documentary, tracing the extraordinary life of a Nigerian veteran of a Burma campaign, Isaac Fadoyebo, won a CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2012.^[7] He his currently at work on a book about the same subject, which will be published in 2014 by OneWorld publications.

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