Nisha’s distinguished broadcasting career included her role as one of the main studio presenters for BBC World News, where she anchored major global stories for international audiences.

Career highlights include:

• Breaking news – anchoring the first two hours of the 9/11 attacks
• Breaking news – live coverage of the fall of Baghdad during the Iraq War
• Breaking news – extensive live coverage of the 2008 global financial crisis
• Asia Today – presenting to peak-time audiences across South Asia

Nisha’s groundbreaking programmes for the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama included:

• A nine-month investigation into media tycoon Robert Maxwell, winner of the Royal Television Society Award for Best Current Affairs Programme
• Underclass in Purdah – a landmark investigation predicting social unrest a decade before the 7/7 attacks
• An investigation into sexual abuse in care homes, featuring the first UK television interviews with victims with learning disabilities
• Clash of Cultures – a live, interactive global broadcast following the 9/11 attacks

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Nisha began her television journalism career on The Money Programme, after working at the Investors Chronicle and Schroders Merchant Bank. She reported extensively on the economic consequences of the end of Communism in Europe.

Notable interviewees include:

• Rupert Murdoch
• Sir Richard Branson
• Gordon Brown

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The 25-minute Hard Talk format showcased Nisha’s probing interview skills with global figures including:

• Amitabh Bachchan
• Sir Yehudi Menuhin
• V. S. Naipaul
• Phil Collins
• Eddie Izzard
• Sir Georg Solti
• Mitsuko Uchida