Alastair Leithead Biography
Alastair Leithead is a journalist based in Portugal. He was formerly BBC’s Africa Correspondent based in Nairobi, Kenya. He also served as BBC’s US West Coast Correspondent based in Los Angeles.
Alastair Leithead Age
He is 50 years old. He was born on January 21, 1972, in Amersham, United Kingdom.
Alastair Leithead Height
He is tall in stature. However, his height is undisclosed.
Alastair Leithead Nationality
Leithead is British.
Alastair Leithead Education
From 1980 to 1990, Alastair attended Newcastle Royal Grammar School. In 1993, he graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in Geography. He also joined Stanford University in California as a JSK (Knight) Fellow in 2019, researching new forms of digital storytelling.
Alastair Leithead Family
He is the son of Arthur Leithead, a security manager, and Edna Leithead (née Mooney), a teacher in private education. He was raised in Blaydon-on-Tyne. However, he hasn’t revealed whether he has siblings or not.
Alastair Leithead Wife
For almost a decade Alastair has been married to his Swedish/Portuguese wife Ana Leithead. The couple tied the knot in 2012.
Currently, they live in rural Portugal where they bought a little off-the-grid farm they’re calling Vale das Estrelas (Valley of the Stars). They also have a weekly blog where they document their progress as they settle into Vale das Estrelas (Valley of the Stars).
“We bought a little off the grid farm we’re calling Vale das Estrelas (Valley of the Stars) and we hope to develop an eco-tourist lodge to help our friends and friends of friends around the world discover rural Alentejo – its history, its beauty, its magnificent Atlantic coastline…and its wines.”
Alastair Leithead BBC
Leithead is a Portugal trainee focussing on language, history, the tourism industry, Alentejano wines, and what to do next in journalism.
Prior to moving to Portugal, Leithead worked at BBC for 24 years. From August 2015 to August 2019, he was covering sub-Saharan Africa as a foreign correspondent for the BBC’s TV, radio, and online networks in the UK and around the world. In 2017 he won a Foreign Press Association award for his long-read coverage of the Chibok girls’ release in Nigeria.
Leithead joined BBC in August 1996 as Sunderland producer for BBC Radio Newcastle. Subsequently, he moved into TV with Look North and worked for Ceefax, Subtitling, and News 24 from the Newcastle newsroom. In June 1998 he began working as a producer on BBC News 24; reporting from the TV Centre on a variety of news stories.
In November 2001 he became the Southern Africa correspondent based initially in Cape Town and then Johannesburg, covering news and feature stories mainly in southern Africa, but including trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia for the overthrow of Charles Taylor, Nigeria, and Kenya.
Leithead later became the Miami correspondent covering Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. He also served as the Afghanistan correspondent between April 2006 and October 2008 based in Kabul. During this time, he covered the resurgence of the Taliban, followed the British forces closely as they entered Helmand, and encountered strong resistance.
In February 2009 he was posted to Asia as a correspondent for BBC News covering East Asia with undercover trips into Burma. He covered the Japanese tsunami and the “red shirt” demonstrations in Bangkok. He also traveled to Egypt during the Arab Spring. In June 2011 he became the US West Coast correspondent based in LA.
Prior to joining BBC, Leithead was a trainee reporter for the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and then became a senior reporter on the paper.
Alastair Leithead Net Worth
His net worth is under review.
Alastair Leithead Instagram
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