Lyse Doucet

About

An award-winning reporter who became a fixture on the BBC as its Chief International Correspondent; her reports were featured on both radio and television.

Before Fame

She graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1980, after having written for the university newspaper.

Trivia

She received the 2010 Peabody and David Bloom Awards for her film on maternal mortality in Afghanistan.

Family Life

Her sister, Andrea Doucet, became a noted Canadian professor of sociology.

Associated With

She was a descendent of one of explorer Samuel de Champlain's shipmates.