Yalda Hakim

Yalda Hakim is an Australian journalist well-known as a BBC World news presenter. She is fluent in more than 5 languages like English, Hindi, Urdu, Pashto, Persian, and Dari. Hakim studied BA in Media from Macquarie University. She began her career as a journalist at SBS World News Australia.

In 2009, she was awarded United Nations Media Peace Prize Award owing to her excellent news coverage. In 2013, she interviewed Hamid Karzai, the President of Afghanistan, which is the country she was born in.