- Reeta Chakrabarti
Reeta Chakrabarti (born
12 December 1964 [Who's Who 2008] ) is apolitical correspondent for theBBC Television 's Breakfast programme shown onBBC One and theBBC News Channel .Biography
Chakrabarti was born in
London to aIndia nBengali family and was raised inBirmingham , also having spent time inIndia as a teenager as a student at the International School inKolkata . [http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/letters.htm#reeta] She has a degree in English and French from Exeter College,Oxford , where she graduated in 1984, and she also spent a year inFrance whilst a student.Career
In 1994, Chakrabarti became a reporter for the Breakfast Programme on the newly launched BBC Radio
Five Live . [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/reporters/4237722.stm BBC Breakfast] ] She later became a general news correspondent working on television as well as radio.In 1997, she became the BBC Community Affairs correspondent, covering the
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and also working on Home Affairs.In 1999 Chakrabarti secured her current role as political correspondent for the BBC, working across a range of programmes in television and radio, reporting on politics for BBC1, BBC2, the BBC News Channel, Radio 4 and Five Live. Currently she is the principal political correspondent for the BBC Television's Breakfast programme.
She has also chaired and hosted a number of corporate events, including the 2003 and 2004 Educational Television Awards Dinners for the
Royal Television Society . [ [http://www.rts.org.uk/Information_page_+_3_pic_det.asp?id=426&sec_id=383 rts.org.uk] ]Personal life
Chakrabarti is married, lives in
North London , and has three children.Her interests include patronage of the
Naz Project , anHIV/AIDS charity focussing on minority groups affected by the disease, and of the National Mentoring Consortium, linking ethnic minority undergraduates with employers in the public and private sectors.References
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/reporters/4237722.stm BBC Profile]
* [http://www.rts.org.uk/Information_page_+_3_pic_det.asp?id=426&sec_id=383 The Royal Television Society]
* [http://www.uel.ac.uk/news/latest_news/stories/letters.htm#reeta Profile at University of East London website]
* [http://www.naz.org.uk/ The Naz Project]
* [http://www.uel.ac.uk/nmc/ The National Mentoring Consortium]
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