Hugh Robert Armstrong Schofield, is the Paris Correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation News, the main newsgathering department of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and its 24-hour television news channels British Broadcasting Corporation World News and British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel, as well as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s domestic television and radio channels and the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service.
Education
In September 1974, after leaving prep school, Schofield was educated at Clifton College, a boarding independent school in the suburb of Clifton in the port city of Bristol in South West England. He entered the school at the age of thirteen as a scholar, where he boarded at School House, and left in summer 1978. The following year, he went up to Street John"s College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Arabic and Turkish.
Schofield"s older brother, Philip, was two years his senior at Clifton College although he entered in the same year, 1974.
Philip went on to become an Exhibitioner in Modern Languages at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
Schofield"s younger sister, Moira, achieved first class honours in Italian at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1985.
Career
He was formerly a British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent across Europe, the Middle East and United States, with over 25 years" experience in reporting for British Broadcasting Corporation radio and television He became British Broadcasting Corporation Paris Correspondent in 1996. Schofield was born in Cardiff in Glamorgan in South Wales, in 1961.
He has an older brother, Philip, and a younger sister, Moira.
Schofield joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in the 1980s after studying Arabic and Turkish at Oxford University. He is the British Broadcasting Corporation"s former Correspondent in the Middle East, Spain, the United States and the former Yugoslavia, and has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Paris since 1996.
He appears regularly on radio, television and the Internet, covering day-to-day French news and providing analysis of politics and the economy. From 2000 to 2008, he was Chief correspondent in Paris at the English Language Service of the Paris-based Agence France-Presse news agency.
