Biographies

Head of Region, the Americas and Europe, BBC World Service

Nikki Clarke is Head of Region for the Americas and Europe for the BBC World Service.

As Head of Region, Nikki Clarke is editorially and managerially responsible for the BBC's radio, online and video operations across nine language services: Albanian, English for the Caribbean, Macedonian, Portuguese for Brazil, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukranian.

Working with the three major 24/7 online languages in the Americas and Europe region (English, Spanish and Russian), Nikki's role involves forming partnerships with media players and developing new multi-media services for BBC World Service audiences.

Nikki Clarke was previously Executive Editor, Asia Pacific where she was responsible for overseeing Vietnamese, Burmese, Chinese, Central Asian, Indonesian, Persian and Pashto output.

She joined the BBC 25 years ago as a News trainee.

She worked first in television news as a producer, moving to Newsgathering as a News Organiser, then becoming Deputy Foreign and Home News Editor.

From Newsgathering Nikki Clarke went on to edit BBC One's Six O'Clock television news programme and then worked for News Interactive, producing an interactive television service for the 2002 General Election, before joining BBC World Service at Bush House, London.