Mishal Husain is a presenter for BBC World, presenting the channels 1-4pm GMT slot each Monday to Thursday.

Mishal also presents the BBC National bulletins at weekends and sometimes deputises on the One O’clock News.

Mishal started presenting on BBC World in 2000 – first specialising in the business news before moving to the main news programmes shortly after September 11th 2001.

As a business presenter she worked on ‘World Business Report’ and also launched the BBC’s ‘Asia Business Report’ programme, based in Singapore.

The international theme continued, with a year’s stint in Washington as a BBC correspondent for the Six O’Clock News.

Following this, Mishal spent time covering on BBC Breakfast.

Mishal is married and lives in West London.