Suzanne Kianpour
Presenter, "Out of the Shadows", BBC; Host, "Women Building Peace"
Suzanne Kianpour is the presenter of BBC's 'Out of the Shadows' and her reporting and anchoring can be found on BBC World News, BBC World Service and BBC online. She is the creator and host of "Women Building Peace" on the BBC World Service in collaboration with the Georgetown Institute of Women Peace and Security – a program about women and war where she directly connects globally influential women with women living in conflict and post conflict countries like Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Colombia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her quests have included former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic and Paula Gaviria, former Presidential Advisor on Human Rights in Colombia. She also is a host of 'The Inquiry' on the BBC World Service.vDuring the week, Kianpour served as the Capitol Hill correspondent for *THE CONTEXT* with Christian Fraser on BBC World News. Kianpour has spent over a decade as a foreign affairs and political journalist, beginning her career at NBC News before moving on to BBC, spanning over 60 countries, shuttling between Washington and warzones, from helmet to heels: chasing down Senators in the corridors of Capitol Hill then covering the far-flung locales they make policy about in a flak jacket, and back. The plane hopping, middle of the night deployment calls, covering tragedy in society and triumph on the campaign trail, crisscrossing America with Presidential candidates and the world with US Secretaries of State – has given her a front row seat to history and resulted in her putting people over politics and working to keep the public service in journalism.
