Last updated January 2007
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Behrouz Afagh is Head of BBC World Service's Asia & Pacific Region.
He is
editorially and managerially responsible for the BBC's broadcasts and
multimedia services in the Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Hindi,
Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Sinhala, Tamil, Urdu and Uzbek
languages.
He will also be responsible for the launch of a BBC Farsi television service
for Iran which will be launched in 2008.
He was born and brought up in Iran and studied at Tehran University and then
at the University of Surrey in Britain. He has lived in Britain since 1978.
Behrouz Afagh joined BBC World Service in 1983.
He worked as a producer and then
editor in the Persian Service and as an editor in the Vietnamese Service.
He set up the BBC Central Asian Service in 1994 and became Editor of Eurasia
Region in 1999. He was Head of Eurasia Region from March 2003.
He became Head
of the Asia Pacific Region in April 2006.
