Yalda Hakim is an award-winning international correspondent and documentary filmmaker. She is the face of the show “The World with Yalda Hakim”, airing Monday to Thursday at 9 pm on Sky News, Freeview Channel 233. In 2024, Yalda Hakim and Richard Engel launched a new podcast sharing the latest news and analysis on global affairs. In 2021, Yalda joined BBC World News as a presenter and correspondent, delivering hard-hitting journalism on many global issues. She was named Chief Presenter and hosted the flagship programme “Daily Global with Yalda Hakim” on BBC News until July 2023.Yalda has spent nearly two decades reporting from the frontlines of the world’s most consequential and dangerous stories. In November 2023, she went live from Jerusalem to present a special programme for Sky News on the Israel-Hamas war. Over the past year, Yalda has reported extensively from Ukraine covering the ongoing war. Her interview with President Zelensky made global headlines when he acknowledged the counter-offensive has been slower than expected. Yalda led BBC World's coverage of the collapse of the Afghan government in 2021, making world headlines after receiving a surprise call from a Taliban spokesperson and conducting an impromptu live-to-air interview on her mobile's loudspeaker as they marched on Kabul. Since then, Yalda has travelled extensively across Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, producing a series of documentaries on the impact of the Taliban takeover on the lives of ordinary Afghans, especially the women and girls of the country. In recognition of her work, Yalda was invited to address the United Nations Security Council in 2022 on the situation in Afghanistan. Yalda also regularly conducts high profile interviews with some of the world’s most important leaders and public figures. She conducted the first international interview with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Among Yalda’s other recent interviews include former US President Bill Clinton, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, Hollywood actor and director Angelina Jolie and Prince Albert of Monaco. Yalda was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and came as a refugee to Australia, where she grew up. She is the founder of the Yalda Hakim Foundation, which has established scholarships for disadvantaged Afghan girls to receive an education. As well as English, Yalda speaks five other languages including Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Pashto, and Dari.