Yalda graduated from Macleay College in 2005 with a Diploma of Journalism. She then went on to become co-host of Dateline, the award-winning current affairs show on SBS.

Yalda’s reportage of global issues is peerless in Australia and today she is one of our leading journalists. Yalda now hosts her own current affairs show on BBC World News – a fantastic achievement.

She was awarded the United Nations Media Peace Prize for best Australian Television News Coverage in 2009, and has also been a finalist for the Walkley Young Australian Journalist of the Year Award.