Yalda Hakim — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Lead World News Presenter for Sky News.
Founder of The Yalda Hakim Foundation.
Awarded the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Prize in 2009.
Served as a chief presenter at BBC News.
Co-hosted Dateline on SBS.
Was a board member of the Macquarie University Union.

Biography

Yalda Hakim is an Afghan-born Australian broadcast journalist, Lead World News presenter for Sky News, and documentary maker. Born in Kabul in 1983, her family fled Afghanistan during the Soviet–Afghan War when she was six months old, eventually settling in Australia in 1986.

Hakim began her career at SBS Television, reporting for Dateline and SBS World News Australia from various locations worldwide.