Caroline Howie is the Regional Director for Asia at the BBC World Service Trust.
She came from BBC World, where she was head of news for nearly five years.
Caroline's background is in programme making and management.
She began her journalism career in her native New Zealand, working as a reporter for Radio New Zealand.
In the 1980s she worked on a number of specialist health publications in the UK, and returned to broadcasting in 1987 when she joined the BBC World Service, working in news and current affairs.
In 1991, Caroline was one of the team that set up BBC World (BBC World Service TV as it was then), working as a producer, programme editor, and then deputy editor until 1998.
She then moved to the domestic news channel, BBC News 24 as editor of its award-winning nightly interview show, HARDtalk with Tim Sebastian before taking up her post as Head of News at BBC World.