Matt Frei

Matt Frei is no stranger to dramatic events. His first day as BBC’s German correspondent saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, and he has traveled the globe covering history-shaping events ever since.

Matt is also the recipient of several coveted news awards, among them the Bayeux award for his coverage of conflict in Indonesia, as well as a BAFTA award, a Royal Television Society International News Award, and the Amnesty International Asia Award in both 1997 and 1998 for Newsnight features on Vietnam and Indonesia. He is also a published author, with a book entitled Italy: the Unfinished Revolution, published in 1995.

Katty Kay

Katty began her career with the BBC in 1990, filing reports for BBC World Service radio. She then went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London, and later Tokyo, until finally settling in Washington in 1996. She’s covered some of the biggest stories of the last 15 years; sex scandals in the Clinton administration; two Presidential elections as well as wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

She also witnessed first-hand the huge change in American policy brought on by the attacks of September 11. Katty was at the Pentagon just 20 minutes after a hijacked airplane flew into the building - one of her most vivid journalistic memories is of interviewing soldiers still visibly shaking from the attack.

Rome Hartman

Rome Hartman, the award-winning and prolific producer, came to the BBC from CBS News. There he executive produced the CBS Evening News and oversaw the launch of CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

While at 60 Minutes, he produced more than 100 reports - a figure reached by only four other producers in the 37-year history of the show.