Bbc impact yalda hakim biography

Australian journalist (born 1983)

Yalda Hakim (born 26 June 1983)^[3] is an Australian broadcast journalist, Sky News Lead World News presenter, and documentary maker.

She was one of the chief presenters at BBC News broadcasting in English in the UK and globally.^[4] After her family left Afghanistan and settled in Australia in 1986, she grew up in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta and went on to study journalism.

Bbc impact yalda hakim biography

She started her career at SBS Television, moving to BBC TV in 2012. In July 2023, it was announced that she was leaving the BBC to join Sky News.

Early life and education

Hakim was born on 26 June 1983 in Kabul, in then DR Afghanistan.

Her family fled the country during the Soviet–Afghan War when she was six months old.^[1] The family travelled on horseback overland to Pakistan with the help of people smugglers. After two years in Pakistan, the family settled in Australia as migrants in 1986, when she was three years