Jill McGivering is a BBC senior foreign correspondent and now South Asia Editor, and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's 'From Our Own Correspondent'. She has won a SONY Academy Award and been shortlisted for the SONY Academy's Journalist of the Year. Her debut novel, The Last Kestrel, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Now based in London, she travels extensively for the BBC including assignments to Afghanistan, Pakistan and China.
