Lyse Doucet

Lyse Marie Doucet, who celebrates her birthday on the 24th of December, was born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada in 1958. She has a sister Andrea Doucet, who is currently a Canadian Professor of Sociology.

Doucet grew up in an Anglophone family and is of Acadian, Irish and Micmac descent. She attended the Queen’s University at Kingston and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980.

She went on to study at the University of Toronto from where she received a Master’s degree in international relations in 1982. Also in 1982, Doucet volunteered on a four-month English teaching task with the Canadian Crossroads International in the Ivory Coast.

She speaks three languages that include English, French and Persian, and has fluency in English and French.

Doucet started her career as a freelancer for the Canadian media and BBC in West Africa for 5 years (1983 to 1988). She was assigned to Kabul, Pakistan in 1988 and managed to cover the Soviet troop withdrawal and the aftermaths.

Later she went to Islamabad as BBC’s correspondent from 1989 to 1993 while reporting from Afghanistan and Iran as well. Doucet opened a BBC office in Amman, Jordan in 1994 and was assigned to Jerusalem from 1996 to 1999.

BBC usually hands over responsibility of anchoring important news stories and interviewing significant individuals to Doucet. She led BBC’s team while covering “Arab Spring” from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. Doucet has managed to cover almost all of the wars that occurred in the Middle East during the mid-1990s.

She was also present to cover the after math of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 in India and Indonesia.

She was nominated for the Best Single Documentary at 2015 BAFTA awards for her film Children of Syria in 2014. After a year, in 2015, Doucet made another documentary Children of the Gaza War with James Jones. She started presenting a five-part series Her Story Made History on BBC Radio 4 from New Year’s Day 2018.

In her career, Doucet has received a lot of awards and honors including the Peabody award, David Bloom award, Best News Journalist awards at Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2010. She and her team were nominated for a Royal Television Society awards for the courage they showed during coverage of an assassination attempt on the Afghan President in 2002.

In 2003, she received a Silver Sony Award and was named International Television Personality of the Year in 2007 by the Association for International Broadcasting. She has received honorary doctorates from universities including the University of King’s College (Halifax, Nova Scotia), University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, University de Moncton, University of York, University of St. Andrews, and Liverpool Hope University.

She won the Sanford St. Martin trustees’ award in 2015 and the Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting Award in the 2017 International Media Awards.

Lysa Doucet is a renowned personality in the field of broadcast journalism and she has gained thousands of fans all over the world. Her popularity shows in social media like Twitter.

The 59 year old joined Twitter in January 2010 and has already received 141 thousand followings in her twitter account, while tweeting 26.4 thousand times.

Lyse Doucet has had an inspiringly amazing career in Journalism. Today she is known all round the globe and it was only possible because of her decades of service and dedication towards journalism.

As BBC’s Chief International Correspondent, it’s no surprise that she earns a handsome salary but it hasn’t yet been revealed exactly how much she earns. However, it’s speculated that her annual income is over $400 thousand.

Similarly her total net worth is estimated to be around $4 million. Awesome!