Laura Trevelyan Biography
Laura Trevelyan is a New York-based British-American BBC anchor and journalist. Trevelyan worked for the BBC as a UN correspondent from May 2006 to 2009. She also reports from the BBC studio in Washington on major national and international stories.
How old is Laura Trevelyan?- Age
Trevelyan is 53 years old as of August 2021. She was born Laura Kate Trevelyan on 21 August 1968 in Islington, London, United Kingdom.
Laura Trevelyan Education
Laura went to Parliament Hill Girls School in North London before earning a first-class degree in politics from Bristol University in 1990 and a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the University of Wales College in Cardiff in 1991.
What nationality is Laura Trevelyan? – Nationality
Laura is a British national and citizen by birth. She was born in Islington, London, United Kingdom. She is of mixed ethnicity/heritage/ancestry.
How tall is Laura Trevelyan?- Height
Trevelyan the famous BBC presenter stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Laura Trevelyan Family- Father
Trevelyan was born and raised in Islington, London, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of George Macaulay and the oldest of three children.
Who is Laura Trevelyan’s husband? – Married
Trevelyan is happily married to former ABC News President James Goldston. They met while studying journalism at Cardiff. The two live with their three sons in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
Laura Trevelyan Books
She is a descendant of Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, and wrote the 2006 book A Very British Family: The Trevelyan’s and Their World about the Trevelyan family, including Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet. Her second book, The Winchester: The Gun That Built An American Dynasty, was released in September 2016 and delves into the history of America’s most renowned rifle and its family.
Laura Trevelyan BBC London – Career
Laura has worked as a journalist for the BBC all around the world, covering humanitarian disasters and diplomatic visits as well as interviewing important newsmakers and public figures. Laura went to the United States in 2004 and worked as the BBC’s United Nations reporter from 2006 to 2009, covering diplomatic action at the UN headquarters in New York as well as humanitarian and peacekeeping activities around the world. She has served in Chad, Sudan, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and Gaza, among other places. In January 2007, she accompanied new UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his first overseas trip, to Africa. Laura flew to Gaza with Mr. Ban to examine the consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2008/9.
Laura has reported from Darfur on the UN’s efforts to send peacekeepers, as well as The Hague, where Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir was charged of war crimes and genocide in Darfur by the Prosecutor. After Cyclone Nargis, she was one of just a few journalists who followed Ban Ki-moon to Burma to speak with the ruling generals. She also reported from Liberia, Ghana, Tanzania, and Rwanda during the 2004 and 2008 US presidential elections, as well as President George W. Bush’s February 2008 visit to Africa. Since 2006, she has covered the aftermath of Haiti’s terrible earthquake and cholera epidemic extensively. While based in New York, Laura studied the sex trafficking trade from Mexico to the United States.
Laura covered general election campaigns and parliamentary discussions in the run-up to the 2003 war of Iraq as a Political Correspondent for BBC TV and radio news in the UK before moving to New York in 2004. Laura began her BBC career as a researcher for Breakfast News in 1993. As a reporter for BBC Ones On the Record in the early 1990s, she covered the Northern Ireland peace process following the historic IRA ceasefire. She began her career as a general reporter with the London Newspaper Group. Laura wrote A Very British Family, The Trevelyan’s and Their World about her family in 2006.
Laura Trevelyan Net Worth
Trevelyan has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million.
Laura Trevelyan Salary
Trevelyan earns an annual salary ranging from $40,000 – $ 110,500.