Ramita Navai is a British-Iranian foreign affairs journalist and author. After a postgraduate degree in journalism at City University London, where she won the Broadcast Journalism Training Council Young Journalist of the Year award, Navai worked as the Tehran correspondent for The Times from 2003-2006, where she covered events including the Bam earthquake, parliamentary and presidential elections. She has reported from over thirty different countries, including reporting for the UN in Iran, Pakistan and Iraqi Kurdistan. She has made twenty documentaries for Channel 4?s award-winning current affairs series Unreported World. For ITN / Channel 4 News she has made various features, including investigating child trafficking in India, police killings of gang members in Brazil and the drug 'paco' in the slums of Argentina. She has written for many publications including the Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, 'The New Statesman and The Irish Times. In 2012 she won an Emmy award for her undercover report from Syria for PBS' Frontline. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1971 in (Age 53)