Philip Reeves
Foreign Correspondent, New Delhi
Philip Reeves, NPR's foreign correspondent based in New Delhi, India, provides in-depth coverage for NPR from South and Central Asia. Since coming to NPR in early 2004, Reeves has covered the elections in Afghanistan and India, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and the conflict in Iraq.
Before coming to NPR, Reeves joined The Independent, a British national newspaper, shortly after it launched, as a general news reporter. It was at The Independent that Reeves began his overseas work during the first Gulf War. He went on to run The Independent's bureaus in the western United States, Moscow, Jerusalem, and South Asia.
Over the years, Reeves has covered a wide range of stories - from the Mike Tyson trial and the Waco siege, to the rise of the Internet moguls, to elections in the former Soviet republics, the final years of Boris Yeltsin's presidency, and conflicts in Chechnya and the Middle East.
Reeves' career includes five years at the BBC, in local radio and at BBC TV's nightly current affairs program Newsnight. He began his training as a journalist at the Bath Evening Chronicle newspaper in England.
Reeves graduated from Cambridge University where he earned a degree in English Literature. He and his wife have one daughter. His family originates from New Zealand.
