BBC South Asia correspondent Nick Bryant has recently been appointed as a BBC South Asia correspondent based in Delhi.
Prior to this he was the BBC Washington correspondent from 1999.
He joined the BBC news trainee scheme in 1994 after writing for the Independent, the Daily Mail and the Times newspapers.
A year later Nick was a reporter on BBC Radio Five Live and reported from various countries on stories such as the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Nick was born in Bristol in 1968 and was educated at Churchill College, Cambridge where he read history, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he did a PhD.