Mark Dummett is a British journalist and broadcaster based in Delhi.
Working mainly for the BBC, he has covered news and events across South Asia since 2005, for all BBC radio, TV and online services. He has reported on the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the political and social developments in India, and the impact of climate change in Bangladesh. For this he won a prestigious UK Sony Radio Award, as part of the BBC By Boat team.
From 2007-2010 he was the BBC's Correspondent in Dhaka, covering the rule of the military-backed caretaker government, two cyclones, the restoration of democracy and a rebellion by border guards.
Mark is also a video journalist, and shoots and edits films for aid agencies. See Mark Dummett's YouTube Channel.
Before moving to the region he covered Africa for BBC World Service radio, working as a Senior Producer on its Focus on Africa programme, and as Kinshasa Correspondent, covering “Africa's World War,” from 2001-3.
His reports have been published by the Economist, Reuters, The Sunday Telegraph and the Scotsman.
His first job in journalism was to help set up Reuters' online service for disaster relief agencies, www.alertnet.org, in 1997.
Mark has been coming to India since spending a term as a pupil at a school in the foothills of the Himalayas.
You can follow Mark on Twitter @mark_dummett and via his blog on life in Bangladesh: D is for Dhaka.