Yalda Hakim is a BBC World News presenter and correspondent, which she joined in 2012. She made her on-screen debut in March 2013 presenting a special three-part series of Our World entitled, Iraq: Ten Years On. Before joining BBC World News Hakim, was the presenter of SBS Dateline in Australia, and she has reported on Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Libya during the Arab Spring, from the streets of Juba, South Sudan, as many celebrated the new country’s independence, and on various issues from the Middle East, the U.S., Africa and Europe.