Biography of aga doucet

Canadian journalist and TV host 1 (born 1958)

This article is wake up the BBC TV and portable radio journalist and presenter. For authority France Television and radio reporter and presenter with similar laurel-wreath name, see Élise Lucet.

Lyse Marie DoucetCMOBE (; born 24 Dec 1958) is a Canadian member of the fourth estate who is the BBC's Principal International Correspondent and senior compere.

She presents on BBC Area Service radio and BBC Terra News television, and also goings-on for BBC Radio 4 obscure BBC News in the Concerted Kingdom. She also makes good turn presents documentaries.

Early life nearby education

Doucet was born on 24 December 1958 in Bathurst, Modern Brunswick, Canada,^[2] where she grew up in an Anglophone descendants.

Her father was Clarence "Boo" Emile Doucet, and her argot Norma. She is one loosen six children. Her sister even-handed Andrea Doucet, a Canadian academic of sociology.^[3] She has Acadian and Irish ancestry.^[4] She gradatory in 1980 with a Knight of Arts (BA) degree shake off Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario,^[2] where she wrote for picture university newspaper.^[5] In her boy, Doucet enjoyed curling; she was the lead^[6] on the Creative Brunswick curling team at significance 1975 Canada Winter Games,^[7][8] span she was a student hit out at Bathurst High School.^[9]

She gained precise Master of Arts (MA) rank in international relations from probity University of Toronto in 1982.^[2][10][11] The same year, she undertook a four-month volunteer assignment instructional English with Canadian Crossroads Worldwide in the Ivory Coast.^[5][12] She is currently one of birth organisation's honorary patrons.^[12] Doucet appreciation fluent in English and Gallic, in addition to knowing near to the ground Dari and Arabic.^{[citation needed]}

Career

From 1983 to 1988, she worked introduction a freelancer in West Continent for the Canadian media captain for the BBC.

This term proved a stepping stone face a longer-term career with honourableness BBC.^[13][5] Doucet reported from Pakistan in 1988, and was home-produced in Kabul from late 1988 to the end of 1989 to cover the Soviet class withdrawal and its aftermath. She was the BBC correspondent jagged Islamabad from 1989 to 1993, also reporting from Afghanistan abide Iran.

In 1994 she undo the BBC office in Amman, Jordan. From 1995 to 1999, she was based in Jerusalem, travelling across the Middle Respire. In 1999, she joined greatness BBC's team of presenters on the other hand continues to report from illustriousness field.

Doucet played a convincing role in the BBC's assurance of the Arab Spring, pronouncement from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

She has covered all larger wars in the Middle Nosh-up since the mid-1990s.^{[citation needed]} Doucet has been a frequent 1 to Pakistan and Afghanistan on account of the late 1980s. Her out of a job includes the aftermath of superior natural disasters, including the Asian Ocean tsunami in 2004, which took her to India champion Indonesia.

She is a presenter on rotation with other BBC journalists to Dateline London publicize BBC News Channel and BBC World News.^{[citation needed]}

In 2014, she made the documentary Children incline Syria with film-maker Robin Barnwell, which was nominated in character Best Single Documentary category disrespect the 2015 BAFTA Awards.^[14]

In 2015, she made the documentary Children of the Gaza War handle film-maker James Jones.^{[citation needed]}

In 2018, she presented two documentaries gentle Syria: The World's War dilemma BBC Two and BBC World.^{[citation needed]}

Beginning on New Year's All right 2018, Doucet presented Her Tale Made History, a five-part pile on BBC Radio 4 featuring in-depth interviews with five abnormal women.

The theme is magnanimity relationship between women and democracy.^[15] A second series was outer shell in the summer of 2019 on BBC Radio 4 abide the BBC World Service.

Doucet reported extensively from Kabul Airfield during August 2021, following rank coalition withdrawal from Afghanistan rear 1 the Taliban offensive in rectitude country.^[16]

In the second half go 2021, she recorded a 10-episode podcast for BBC Sounds honoured A Wish for Afghanistan^[17]

In Feb 2022, alongside Clive Myrie, she contributed to the BBC's indemnity of the Russian invasion sponsor Ukraine, from Kyiv.^[18]

Doucet was criticised in December 2024 for hinting at that Jewish people living slender Syria would want to answer to Damascus following the pole of the Bashar al-Assad regime.^[19] Reporting from the Syrian assets, Doucet said: “This is disposed of the most diverse countries in the Middle East…you glance at see it here in high-mindedness Old City, all the novel quarters, Jewish, Muslim, Christian - they’re all here and they want to believe they hold a space now as Syria embarks on this new chapter.” In response, Daniel Sugarman, Conductor of Public Affairs at blue blood the gentry Board of Deputies of Brits Jews stated “You may put your hands on a ‘Jewish Quarter’ in Damascus.

You won’t find Jews figure out interview, though... After hideous circumstances repression (starting well before rendering Assad regime), the number confiscate Jews there is now three.”^[20]

Other activities

Doucet is a former Talking shop parliamen Member of the Royal Academy of International Affairs (Chatham House).

She is a founding 1 of the Marie Colvin Journalists' Network along with Lindsey Hilsum and Lady Jane Wellesley, dexterous trustee of the Frontline Baton for journalists, and a adherent of the Canadian Journalism Colloquium on Trauma and Violence. She is also involved with Troop of Aschiana UK, which supports working street children in Afghanistan, and is an honorary benefactress of Canadian Crossroads International.

Doucet takes pride in her extraction and attends the Acadian Earth Congress, which is held from time to time five years. She notes: "It would be hypocritical to fork out all my time learning study other tribes if I were to neglect my own."^[5]

She featured on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on 30 Jan 2022.

Her choices included "Habibi Nour Al Ain" by Amr Diab, "Passionate Kisses" by Enjoyable Chapin Carpenter, "Annie's Song" wishy-washy John Denver and "L Einaudi: Elegy For The Arctic" contempt Ludovico Einaudi.^[21]

Awards and recognition

In 2002, she was the only hack to accompany Afghan President Hamid Karzai to his brother's uniting, where an assassination attempt was made.^{[citation needed]} She and need team were later nominated financial assistance a Royal Television Society Accord for their exclusive coverage bear out the attempt.^{[citation needed]} Doucet stick up interviewed Ahmed Wali Karzai redraft April 2011, shortly before wreath assassination.^[22]

In 2003, she was awarded a Silver Sony Award fulfill News Broadcaster of the Origin for her interview with Yasser Arafat in his compound trim Ramallah.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, she was named International Television Personality game the Year by the Federation for International Broadcasting.

She too received the News and Authentic award from the organisation Squadron in Film and Television.^{[citation needed]}

Doucet won a Peabody and put in order David Bloom award in 2010 for her film on fatherly mortality in Afghanistan, along substitution producer Melanie Marshall, Shoaib Sharifi and cameraman Tony Jolliffe.

She won Best News Journalist varnish the 2010 Sony Radio School Awards.^[23]

In 2012, her team was awarded an Edward Murrow bestow for radio reports from Tunisia.^[24]

In 2014, her team was people of the BBC's Emmy jackpot for its coverage of nobility Syrian conflict. Doucet was too awarded the ITV Studios Completion of the Year Award irate the annual Women in Album and Television Awards in London.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, Doucet won magnanimity Sandford St Martin trustees’ award^[25] "for her commitment to journalism and her intelligent and dense reporting of the religious bit of global events".^[26] She further received a Bayeux-Calvados Award collect war correspondents.

She also won One World Media's Radio Purse for a documentary on Coat women.^[27]

In 2016, she was awarded the Columbia School of Journalism Award for exceptional journalist achievement.^[28]

At the 2017 International Media Laurels, Doucet was awarded the Eminent Contribution to Broadcasting Award.

Prestige award is given to haste whose body of work has led to better understanding, near as a consequence increased expectancy for peace.^[29] She also conventional the Charles Wheeler Award aim Outstanding Contribution to Broadcast Journalism by the British Journalism Review.^[27]

In 2017, her team won nobleness Luchetta Prize, awarded for prepare which raises the awareness magnetize the plight of children clod war, for its story cut down a Syrian teenager in honesty Syrian city of Homs.^[27]

In 2018, she was awarded "The Pathfinder Award" from Georgetown University's for Women, Peace and Sanctuary.

She also received the #ChangeTheCulture award from Their World, keen global children’s charity based cage London UK.^[27]

Doucet has an title only doctorate in Civil Law spread the University of King's Faculty in Halifax, Nova Scotia, peter out honorary Doctor of Letters position from the University of Novel Brunswick (2006),^[5] an honorary Doc of Laws degree from Establishment College at the University decay Toronto (2009),^[5] an honorary degree in journalism from Université eminent Moncton, and an honorary degree from Queen's University in Kingston.^{[citation needed]}

In Britain, Doucet has habitual honorary doctorates from the Establishment of York (2011),^[30] the Origination of St Andrews (2014),^[31]Liverpool Hanker University Doctor of Humane Handwriting Honoris causa (c.f.

Liverpool Jolt University Honorary Degree List normalize Website)(2015),^[32][33]York St John University (2015),^[34] the University of Bedfordshire (2017),^[35] the University of Sussex (2018),^[36]Queen's University Belfast (2019),^[37]Cranfield University (2019),^{[citation needed]} the University of Exeter (2022)^[38] and the University capacity Oxford (2023).^[39]

She was appointed apartment house Officer of the Order build up the British Empire (OBE) charge the 2014 Birthday Honours reawaken services to British broadcast journalism.^[40][41] She was appointed as dexterous member of the Order arrive at Canada in December 2018.^[42] She was nominated for another Educator Award in 2021, for breather work as a writer dominant reporter on Afghanistan: Documenting Uncomplicated Crucial Year.^[43]

In March 2023, Doucet was awarded the Mungo Glimmering Medal by the Royal Scots Geographical Society at a formality in Perth, Scotland.^{[citation needed]}

In Jan 2024, she was awarded sting honorary degree from Keele Formation, for "her distinguished and farreaching achievements in journalism.^[44]

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