Kirsty Lang, Presenter, BBC World News Today

Kirsty Lang currently works for the BBC, having first joined as a graduate trainee in 1986. She gained an MA in Journalism from City University, London after reading International Relations at the London School of Economics.
Kirsty initially worked on programmes such at Today and The World at One. In 1989 she became a Central European correspondent for BBC World Service in Budapest. There she covered the fall of the Berlin wall and the Balkans conflict. She later became a reporter for the BBC’s Newsnight. After a stint working for the Sunday Times in Paris, she joined Channel 4 News in 1998 as a studio presenter and news reporter.
Kirsty returned to the BBC when the digital channel BBC4 was launched in 2002. Kirsty is the presenter of World News Today, an international current affairs programme broadcast globally on BBC World. Kirsty is a regular presenter for Front Row on Radio Four. She has also been a stand in anchor for The World News Tonight and various other programmes. She occasionally contributes to other publications such as the Times, and was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008.