Susannah Price has been BBC correspondent at the United Nations since January 2004, reporting for all television, radio and online outlets on issues such as the crisis in Darfur and the chosing of the new government in Iraq.

She travelled with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to Darfur and the refugee camps in Chad to see the plight of those fleeing the violence.

Susannah previously lived in New York on a year's sabbatical but returned to work to cover major stories for the BBC including UN negotiations over Iraq, the trial of the shoe bomber in Boston and the shuttle disaster.

She also spent a month reporting from Iraq and was the first BBC reporter on the scene of the suicide bomb attack on UN headquarters in Baghdad.

Before moving to New York, Susannah was the BBC's Pakistan correspondent, based in Islamabad, for two and a half years.

She covered the aftermath of the September 11 attacks which had a huge impact on Pakistan, in particular the government's rejection of the Taleban and the people's reaction to the United States-led attacks on Afghanistan.

Prior to this she spent two and a half years as the BBC's Sri Lanka correspondent and before that two years in the BBC World Service as editor of Newshour, reporter on Assignment and in the World Service newsroom.

From 1994 to 1995 Susannah worked as assistant producer on BBC TWO's Newsnight and on Correspondent programmes.

Between 1992 and 1993 she worked as a reporter in Afghanistan - Afghan tribesmen were reported to have called other journalists Suzy Price long after she left Kabul, in the belief that it was the word for reporter.

Susannah was born and brought up in North London. After school she spent a gap year teaching in Kenya.

She graduated from York University with a degree in English before gaining a postgraduate diploma in journalism from City University.

She is currently studying for a Masters in International Affairs at the New School University in New York.