Nisha Pillai
British journalist
Nisha Pillai is an Indian journalist based in London. She is a main news anchor for BBC World News.
Early life
Pillai was born in Kolkata, India, and grew up in Mumbai. When she was 14, her family moved to London, England. She attended a girls school in Birmingham, then graduated in analytical economics at the London School of Economics.
Her mother Nita Pillai (née Mookherjee) was the younger daughter of industrialist Sir Biren Mookerjee and Lady Ranu Mookherjee, an impresario and an associates of Rabindranath Tagore. Her paternal grandfather was the former Ambassador of India to France, Sir Narayanan Raghavan Pillai.
Career
After attending university, she joined Schroders Investment Bank, then moved into journalism with the weekly Investors Chronicle. Pillai joined the BBC in 1986, first working on The Money Programme, then Panorama from 1990 to 1995. Her nine-month investigation into financial affairs of media proprietor Robert Maxwell was presented as "The Max Factor", which won an award from the Royal Television Society in 1991.
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