MS. SHARANJIT LEYL FORMER BBC WORLD NEWS PRESENTER & PRODUCER Sharanjit has brought you the news from Asia on BBC World News, Bloomberg Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a quarter of a century. She spent eighteen years with BBC World News, covering business and politics, anchoring from its Asia bureau and from London's Broadcasting House. She regularly anchored live on location on breaking stories from the Asia Pacific region, while contributing to BBC World Service radio and the BBC news website. A Singaporean native, she's produced and presented documentaries on TV and radio about her city on the BBC. Educated in North America with undergraduate degrees in Journalism and a Masters in English, Sharanjit has lived and worked in Washington DC, London, Tokyo, Vancouver and Singapore, bringing a truly global perspective to her work. She now regularly moderates high-level debates for the United Nations, the ADB and other multilateral and financial institutions while balancing a board career and advising companies and educational institutions on diversity, inclusion and media strategy. In May 2024, she was installed as the Chancellor of Bath Spa University, succeeding her predecessor, Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons and is the first Singaporean ever appointed to such a role at a UK university. As a result, she divides her time between her homes in Singapore and Bath. Senior Broadcast Journalist & Presenter BBC News 2003 – June 2021 (18 years) Sharanjit spent eighteen years with BBC World News. 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, the Trump-Kim summits among others. She’s interviewed heads of State from Canada, New Zealand , Australia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and, Singapore, 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 international organisations and companies. Anchor Bloomberg Television 1999 – 2003 (4 years) Sharanjit was one of the main anchors from Bloomberg's Asia Pacific headquarters in Tokyo, presenting a three-hour rolling news programme, "On The Money Asia" and reporting on breaking financial stories as well as major news events such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Financial Correspondent Bridge Information Systems (acquired by Reuters) 1998 – 1999 (1 year) A multifaceted role at that involved filing market updates for TV and radio as well as writing newswires on Asian foreign exchange movements at the height of the Asian Financial Crisis (before being poached by Bloomberg). Freelance Reporter, Canadian Broadcas ng Corpora in 1996 – 1998 (2 years) Reported for the award winning show ‘Pacific Rim Report’. Sharanjit started off in Vancouver, B.C. covering the student protests at the APEC summit in 1997 and several other stories, then moved to Singapore to file reports during the Asian Financial Crisis.
MS. SHARANJIT LEYL
FORMER BBC WORLD NEWS PRESENTER & PRODUCER
Sharanjit has brought you the news from Asia on BBC World News, Bloomberg Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for a quarter of a century. She spent eighteen years with BBC World News, covering business and politics, anchoring from its Asia bureau and from London's Broadcasting House. She regularly anchored live on location on breaking stories from the Asia Pacific region, while contributing to BBC World Service radio and the BBC news website. A Singaporean native, she's produced and presented documentaries on TV and radio about her city on the BBC. Educated in North America with undergraduate degrees in Journalism and a Masters in English, Sharanjit has lived and worked in Washington DC, London, Tokyo, Vancouver and Singapore, bringing a truly global perspective to her work. She now regularly moderates high-level debates for the United Nations, the ADB and other multilateral and financial institutions while balancing a board career and advising companies and educational institutions on diversity, inclusion and media strategy. In May 2024, she was installed as the Chancellor of Bath Spa University, succeeding her predecessor, Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons and is the first Singaporean ever appointed to such a role at a UK university. As a result, she divides her time between her homes in Singapore and Bath.