Lyse Doucet
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Lyse Doucet OBE |
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Doucet speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2014
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24 December 1958 Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada |
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| Occupation | Journalist, television presenter | ||
| Employer | BBC | ||
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| Relatives | Andrea Doucet (sister) | ||
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Lyse Marie Doucet OBE (/liːs duːˈsɛt/; born 24 December 1958) is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and an occasional Contributing Editor. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the United Kingdom, including reporting and occasionally presenting for Newsnight and World News Today. She also makes and presents documentaries.
Doucet is a native of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, where she grew up in an anglophone family. Her sister is Andrea Doucet, a Canadian Professor of Sociology. She has Acadian, Irish and Micmac ancestry. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University at Kingston in 1980, where she wrote for the university newspaper. She gained a master's degree in international relations from the University of Toronto in 1982. The same year, she undertook a four-month volunteer assignment teaching English with Canadian Crossroads International in the Ivory Coast. She is currently one of the organisation's honorary patrons. Doucet speaks English and French, and is a less fluent speaker of Persian.
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