Biography of Mishal Husain
Mishal Husain is a British news anchor and journalist who currently works for BBC Television and BBC Radio. Husain is the main Sunday presenter of BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend News, as well as the main presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today. During his tenure at the station, Mishal has presented The Andrew Marr Show, HARDtalk, Impact and BBC Breakfast. Furthermore, she is a BBC News at Six relief presenter.
Mishal attended the British School in Abu Dhabi, where his family stayed for a period. She later returned to England at age 12 and continued her education at Cobham Hall School, an independent school in Kent. Husain studied law at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, and later earned an MA in International and Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Mishal Husain’s Age
How old is Mishal Husain? Mishal and also 49 or 50 years from 2022. She was born in Northampton, England. However, Mishal hasn’t released details about her birth dates, so it’s not when she celebrates her birthday.
Mishal Husain’s Husband
Husain is married to her husband Meekal Hashmi since July 2003. The couple is blessed with three boys and they live happily together in Camden, North London. Their children are Rafael and the twins Musa and Zaki.
Height of Mishal Husain
Husain is approx. height of 5 feet 4 inches.
Mishal Husain family
Hussain is the daughter of Imtiaz Husain and Shama Husain. Her mother was a teacher and former producer at Pakistan Television Corporation, while her father was a consultant urologist surgeon at Bedford Hospital. He has a younger brother named Haider Husain.
Grandfather Mishal Husain
Husain’s grandfather is Syed Shahid Hamid, the Pakistan Army’s first Director General of Intelligence Services and a 2-star general in the Pakistan Army, and a close associate of President Ayub Khan. Hamid was the first Master General of Artillery in the Pakistan Army. He is the author of several books, most notably Autobiography of a General.
Mishal Husain’s Career
Mishal began her journalistic career at age 18, when she worked as a city presenter for the English-language newspaper The News in Islamabad, Pakistan. Then, while at university, she did various internships at the BBC as part of her work experience. Her first job was at Bloomberg TV in London, where she worked as a creator and occasional reporter from 1996 onwards.
Two years later, in 1998, she joined the BBC as a junior creator at the newsroom and News 24 channel, and then at the Economics and Business Unit. After a few months, she played various roles on the daily Breakfast show, Asia Business Report, and as a business news reporter at BBC World and BBC World News.
She was the corporation’s Washington journalist in September 2002, serving as the main news presenter during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq and throughout the war. She has spoken with several high-profile individuals, including Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armigate, Richard Perle, Paul Kagame and Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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On May 8, 2010, she published an autobiographical article in The Independent about a nostalgic trip to the UAE. In 2011, she hosted Impact on BBC World News, but in the spring and summer of that year, she was working on a documentary about the Arab Spring that would air in the fall of that year. She hosts BBC Weekend News on BBC One on Sunday nights. Mishal was announced as a cast member of the BBC Olympics presentation team on 2 December 2011.
She presented the latest broadcasts of BBC TV Center’s News at Ten on 17 March. On 16 July 2013, BBC Director-General Lord Hall announced that Mishal would join BBC Radio 4’s Today program as a reporter in the fall. She continues to anchor BBC Weekend News on BBC One on Sunday nights, as well as ceremonies on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. Mishal hosted her first show Today on October 7, 2013, with John Humphrys as her co-reporter. She was announced as a member of the BBC’s Commonwealth Games Presentation Team on 7 November 2013.
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Mishal is also an assistant reporter for BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten. She ceremonially closed BBC Two’s Newsnight. Mishal was named Broadcaster of the Year at the 2015 London Press Club Awards. Mishal gave a speech to Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2013. “Kyi lost his cool after a tense interview” during intense cross-examination. Suu Kyi reportedly muttered: “Nobody told me I would be interviewed by a Muslim.”
The Daily Mail criticized her in 2017 after an interview with then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on the Today Program on Radio 4, as well as Mishal’s temperance during a BBC election debate in Cambridge. After the debate, The Mail dubbed her a “spokesperson for (Labour leader Jeremy) Corbyn” and described her performance as “light”. Her interview with Johnson was also mentioned in the reviews. She filmed an interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on November 27.
Mishal Husain’s net worth
Husain have an estimate net worth from among $1 million – $5 million. Her income is mainly from her successful career as a broadcast journalist.
