Background
Corera was born in London. His father was from the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India.
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Corera was educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in northwest London, followed by Street Peter"s College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern History, followed by graduate studies in United States foreign policy at Harvard University.
Career
He is the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Security Correspondent and specializes in computer technology. The family has a home near Cavelossim, in the state of Goa in western India, which he says he has a deep affection for, and visits regularly. Corera worked on the re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton.
He joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 as a researcher and later became a reporter.
He has worked on Radio 4"s The World Tonight, BBC2"s Newsnight, and worked in the United States as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s State Department correspondent and as an analyst for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s coverage of the 2000 United States presidential election. In 2001 he became the foreign reporter for Radio 4"s Today programme.
He was appointed British Broadcasting Corporation News" security correspondent in 2004. Corera presented the 2009 Radio 4 programme MI6: A Century in the Shadows, a three-part history of Britain"s Secret Intelligence Service.
Bibliography
Corera wrote The Art of Betrayal - Life and Death in the British Secret Service, Orion 2011 about MI6, and Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network, September 2006.
, about Abdul Qadeer Khan and Pakistan"s nuclear programme. He also wrote "Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies", Orion 2015. Corera wrote the introduction to Omar Nasiri"s book Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy"s story.
