1. Sharanjit Leyl regularly anchored Asia Business Report and Newsday on BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC World News from the BBC's Singapore studio.
11 Facts About Sharanjit Leyl
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Sharanjit Leyl was a reporter and producer on the shows along with World Business Report.
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Sharanjit Leyl has filed reports for radio on the BBC World Service business programmes as well as its arts and culture programmes, and written for BBC news online.
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Sharanjit Leyl moved to Washington DC in her teens with her family, where her father worked for the Singapore Ministry of Defence in defence procurement.
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Sharanjit Leyl then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where she completed a master's degree in English Literature at the University of British Columbia which focused on post-colonial writers such as Salman Rushdie.
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Sharanjit Leyl began her broadcasting career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1997.
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Sharanjit Leyl joined Bloomberg Television in March 2000 and moved to its headquarters in Tokyo.
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Sharanjit Leyl played an integral role in editing and influencing the content of Bloomberg's Asian programming.
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Sharanjit Leyl joined the BBC as a producer and reporter in September 2003 and has since reported and presented from places as far afield as Pakistan, Tokyo and London.
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Sharanjit Leyl has presented Impact, Global, World Business Report, Asia Today and World News Today during several spells in London.
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On 8 May 2024, Sharanjit Leyl was installed as the new Chancellor of Bath Spa University, making her the first female Chancellor of the university, the second Chancellor in almost 20 years, and the first Asian Chancellor of a British university in the United Kingdom.