Last updated September 2007
Category: News
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Katya Adler has been a BBC Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem, since December 2006.
Prior to that, she was based in Spain, having been
appointed the BBC's Madrid Correspondent in August 2003.
She reported on
the city's train bombings in March 2004 in which nearly 200 people were
killed.
From Spain, Katya also travelled widely around Europe and the Middle East
to cover breaking stories such as the Lebanon war, the Amman bombings,
Israel's pull-out from Gaza, the death of Pope John Paul II and the last
days of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in a Paris hospital.
Born in London to German parents, Katya's attention was always focused
beyond the British Isles.
Part of her studies were in Italy and, after
leaving university, she went to Vienna to work as a news reporter for the
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation.
Her assignments took her to Kosovo during the war, to Central and Eastern Europe to
observe developments post-Communism and across the Middle East.
Katya began working for the BBC from Vienna in 1998.
In 2000 she began
commuting between London, where she presented two BBC World Service
European current affairs radio programmes, and Berlin, where she worked as a
news anchor on Deutsche Welle Television.
She then became the Europe Reporter for BBC World Service's radio news
programmes after a stint as BBC Berlin Correspondent.
Katya speaks fluent Italian, Spanish, German and French. She is currently
learning Arabic and Hebrew.
