As of September 2018, Megha Mohan is the BBC's first Gender and Identity Correspondent.
Prior to that she was a senior multimedia staff reporter at the BBC’s Digital Current Affairs department. There, she told stories on subcultures across Asia, Africa, the US and Europe, with a focus on gender.
Her original reports include the influence of the Alt-Right in global politics, the War on Drugs in the Philippines, the billion dollar livestreaming industry in China, meme culture in India, women in North Korea’s army, political instability in DR Congo, and the spread of propaganda and misinformation in Burundi.
She regularly appears on BBC News TV, the World Service and Radio 4.
Prior to joining the BBC, she spent extensive time working in the Great Lakes in Africa.
