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Sharanjit Leyl
Senior Broadcast Journalist - Presenter
BBC News


Sharanjit has spent a quarter of a century in broadcasting, including eighteen years with BBC World News, covering business, finance and politics. She anchored and produced Asia Business Report and Newsday from the channel’s Asia bureau in Singapore and also presented several BBC World News programmes in London, filed reports for radio on the BBC World Service and written for BBC news online.She’s reported for domestic BBC programmes such as Breakfast, the One and Six ’clock news and regularly anchored live on location on breaking stories in the region such as the Hong Kong protests, the Sri Lankan Easter Sunday bombings, the Christchurch shooting and the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight among others. A Singaporean native, she's produced and presented BBC documentaries on TV and radio about her city which featured interviews from leaders and pioneers who helped make it one of the 20th century's success stories. She’s interviewed the heads of states of Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand among others, the chief executives and chairpersons from various Fortune 500 companies and the Presidents of the World Bank and IMF.  Sharanjit was highly commended as best presenter at the Asian TV Awards in 2017 and an episode of Newsday she anchored won Best News Programme the same year.She is now such a familiar face for viewers in Asia that she is regularly invited to moderate high level debates for the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF, the ADB and other non-governmental organisations and financial institutions.

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