Serena Chaudhry is Reuters Editor of Africa Journal, a broadcast and digital service focused on telling the stories of the African continent, from the street to the boardroom. In her 11 years at Reuters and the BBC, she has worked in a range of roles and locations, reporting from across Africa, the Middle East and the U.K. She notably spent two years in Iraq, covering the war. Born in London and brought up in South Africa, Serena also has family ties to Kenya, India and Pakistan. She has a Bachelor of Journalism from Rhodes University and speaks French, Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi, and is working on Arabic.