Al Jazeera International, the 24-hour English-language news and current affairs channel, headquartered in Doha, announced that award winning news anchor Teymoor Nabili has joined the channel. Winner of Best News Presenter/Anchor at the Asian TV Awards in 2005, Teymoor has also received awards from the UK Royal Television Society, for coverage of the Utah Olympic bribery scandal, and from the New York Awards, for reporting on economic development in Malaysia.
Teymoor will be the channels male news anchor in Kuala Lumpur co-presenting the news with fellow award winning presenter Veronica Pedrosa, formerly of CNN International. Kuala Lumpur is one of Al Jazeera Internationals four regional broadcast centres strategically placed across the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC.
Speaking on Teymoors appointment from the channels Doha headquarters, Director of News Steve Clark said, Teymoor will be one of our key journalists in bringing news to English speaking viewers around the world. He has a wealth of knowledge on Asia, The Gulf and Europe
Teymoor brings 17 years of experience to Al Jazeera International: writing, producing, reporting and anchoring in television, radio and print. He joins Al Jazeera International from CNBC Asia in Singapore, where he has been anchor since 2001. Previous roles include news anchor for BBC Television in London, and anchor for European Business News.