FORA.tv Speaker - Bridget Kendall

Bridget Kendall is currently the BBC's diplomatic correspondent. After studying modern languages at Oxford, and then post-graduate studies in Soviet affairs, in 1983 she became a radio production trainee for the BBC World Service. Later she was the BBC's Moscow correspondent and then their correspondent based in Washington.

Amongst an array of world leaders she has interviewed are Vladimir Putin, King Abdullah of Jordan and Mikhail Gorbachev.