Last updated November 2006
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James Reynolds is the BBC Beijing Correspondent.
He was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1974 and brought up in New York, Brussels, Jerusalem, and London.
He studied French and Spanish at Cambridge University before joining the BBC on a journalist trainee scheme in January 1997.
James worked for a year for the BBC in the East Midlands and then headed to Santiago, Chile in June 1998 to start work as the BBC's South America Correspondent.
In July 2001 he moved to Jerusalem to take up a post as one of the BBC's Middle East Correspondents.
During his time in the region, James covered a range of stories including the war in Iraq, the death of Yasser Arafat, and Israel's war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In November 2006, he moved to China to take up work in the BBC's Beijing Bureau.
James has won awards from the Royal Television Society and the Radio Academy.
