Background
Alastair Malcolm Leithead was born in Amersham to Arthur Leithead, a security manager, and Edna Leithead (née Mooney), a teacher in private education.
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Alastair Leithead
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University of Manchester.
Career
Leithead is currently based in Nairobi and works across all British Broadcasting Corporation News outlets. He was raised in Blaydon-on-Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. He then went to the University of Manchester to study geography.
After leaving University, Leithead worked at the Newcastle Evening Chronicle before joining British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newcastle.
Later he worked as a news producer in London. As a foreign correspondent, Leithead has been based in Africa and Asia before moving to Kabul.
There he covered the war in Afghanistan. Leithead has reported from a refugee camp in South Sudan.
More recently, he has been based in Los Angeles before being re-located to Kenya as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Africa Correspondent in July 2015.
