Dharshini David is a British

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and broadcaster. After working at

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and

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, she became a business correspondent and news presenter for

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in 2009. She returned to the BBC in 2018.

Early life

David was born and brought up in

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. David was educated at the James Allen's Girls' School in

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, and read

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at Downing College,

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. She has also worked for independent

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Oxford Economic Forecasting, for the UK's

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, and for

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as its UK Economist in London.

Broadcasting career

David joined the BBC in 2000 as an economics correspondent. She worked on national BBC1 bulletins, ''

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,'' and on its international counterpart '' BBC World.'' She also presented for the BBC's current affairs series ''

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'',

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news and BBC Radio. She was appointed the BBC's New York Business Presenter in July 2006 and presented ''

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'' from

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. and covered the emergence of the credit crunch from Wall Street. In September 2009, she joined

as a business and economics correspondent. She latterly presented business news bulletins and programmes for Sky, including the flagship business programmes "Jeff Randall Live" and "Business Live", and also presented "Sky News Tonight" and other general news programmes. By 2018, David was back at

as Senior Economics correspondent. In January 2020, she was appointed BBC News' first Global Trade Correspondent. She also presents the business news for the Today programme and other shows for Radio 4.

Writing

David's first book, ''The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of a Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works'', was published by Elliott & Thompson in February 2018.

References

External links

Pre-Budget report: BBC's Dharshini David
BBC News, 28 November 2001 * {{DEFAULTSORT:David, Dharshini Living people Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge English people of Sri Lankan Tamil descent English reporters and correspondents English television presenters BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World News Sky News newsreaders and journalists HSBC people People educated at James Allen's Girls' School English economists Writers from London Year of birth missing (living people)