Sharanjit Leyl

Sharanjit Leyl

Chancellor, Bath Spa University

Sharanjit has brought you the news from Asia on BBC, Bloomberg and the CBC for a quarter of a century. She spent eighteen years with the BBC’s global television news channel, covering business and politics, presenting from its Asia bureau and from London's Broadcasting House. She regularly anchored on location on breaking stories from the Asia Pacific region while contributing to the BBC’s radio and online platforms. A Singaporean native, she's presented and produced documentaries about her city.
Educated in North America with undergraduate degrees in Journalism and a Masters in English, Sharanjit has lived and worked in Washington DC, London, Tokyo, Vancouver and Singapore, bringing a truly global perspective to her work. She now regularly moderates high-level debates for the United Nations, the ADB and other multilateral and financial institutions while balancing a board career and advising companies and educational institutions on diversity, inclusion, environmental and media strategy. She is board certified and sits on several company boards internationally.
In May 2024, she made history as the first Singaporean Chancellor of a British University at Bath Spa University, succeeding Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons. She now divides her time between her homes in Singapore and Bath, UK.

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