BBC chief to speak at the EIC spring luncheon
Posted: 27 February 2006
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 The Energy Industries Council's Middle East office invites members and guests to its Spring Luncheon.
Keynote speaker is BBC's chief news correspondent Kate Adie to give an overview of her experiences as one of the best known faces on television for her reporting from the major wars in recent years. They include the Gulf War, the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Rwanda, China and Sierra Leone.
Adie began working as a journalist in regional TV in Plymouth, Southampton and Brighton, joining BBC TV News in 1979.
Her coverage of the 1980 siege of the Iranian Embassy brought her to prominence as one of the few women reporting difficult and dangerous stories at that time.
Kate Adie became the BBC's chief correspondent in 1989. She again came to the public's attention when she covered the brutal suppression of the student uprising in Tiananmen Square. For this as well as other major stories she has won an impressive array of awards, as well as being awarded the OBE in 1993.
The luncheon will be held at 33 rd floor, Gulf Auditorium, Fairmont Hotel, Dubai. Reception starts at 12.00pm. Registration cost is AED for members and AED195 for guests. Cost is inclusive of wine, beer, soft drinks, 3 course luncheon and coffee.
Dress: Collar and Tie / National Dress
Registration form may be e-mailed or faxed to Julie Zollikofer at: julie@eicme-dubai.ae or +971 4 299 5946
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Kate Adie, OBE
 Kate Adie, author and broadcaster, achieved fame through her work as the BBC’s Chief News Correspondent, and is considered to be among the finest reporters, as well as one of the first British women, sending despatches from danger zones around the world. She is also familiar as the presenter of Radio Four’s From Our Own Correspondent and a guest on many other radio and television programmes. She has been named “Reporter of the Year” twice by the Royal Television Society; the first occasion was for her coverage of the SAS relief of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980. She also won the Monte Carlo International Golden Nymph Award in 1981 and 1990, and was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire ) in 1993.
Kate grew up in Sunderland and gained her BA from Newcastle University where she read Swedish. She was a member of the National Youth Theatre and still attends the theatre and visits galleries when time permits. She is an avid reader of both fiction and history, and has served as a judge for literary prizes, most recently, the Orange Pr ize for Fiction. Kate is a trustee of the Imperial War Museum , and her illustrated, companion history to the museum’s exhibition about women in uniform was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2003.
Her first book, The Kindness of Strangers, an account of her work as a reporter and how she came to undertake it, published by Headline in 2001, stayed on the Sunday Times best seller list for 37 weeks; the combined paperback and hardback editions have sold some half million copies so far.
Hodder & Stoughton have now published Kate’s new book, Nobody’s Child: Who are you when you don’t know your Past? to rave reviews.
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