As of September 2018, Megha Mohan is the BBC's first Gender and Identity Correspondent.
She covers issues concerning women's rights and LGBT communities, and race and ethnicity, for the BBC's 41 language services. She has travelled to and reported from six continents. Megha is a deployment journalist who files longform original features for BBC World TV, radio, online and social media.
She has interviewed Michelle Obama, Amal Clooney, Melinda French Gates, several women leaders including the Prime Minister of Finland and Samoa, and pop star Billie Eilish.
Megha has consulted on Level Up’s media guidelines on how to responsibly report domestic abuse. She has presented these guidelines at the International Journalism Festival and Reuters Institute of Journalism.
Her original reports include the influence of the Alt-Right in global politics, the War on Drugs in the Philippines, the billion dollar livestreaming industry in China, meme culture in India, women in North Korea’s army, political instability in DR Congo, and the spread of propaganda and misinformation in Burundi.
She regularly appears on BBC News TV, the World Service and Radio 4.
Prior to joining the BBC, she spent extensive time working in the Great Lakes in Africa.
