Background
Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany. In 1973 Frei left Germany with his family and moved to the United Kingdom, when his father became a London correspondent for German radio.
Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany. In 1973 Frei left Germany with his family and moved to the United Kingdom, when his father became a London correspondent for German radio.
He was educated at Westminster School, then read History and Spanish at Street Peter"s College, University of Oxford, before graduating in 1986.
He is now the channel"s Europe Editor and an occasional presenter of the evening news. British Broadcasting Corporation
Frei joined the British Broadcasting Corporation shortly after graduation. After a year in the German section of the World Service, he moved to English Language Current Affairs, where he worked for another year.
In 1989, working as a stringer, he reported on the First Intifada in Jerusalem, then on the Persian Gulf War as London Foreign Affairs correspondent.
He took up the post of Bonn correspondent in Germany on the same day as the fall of the Berlin Wall. From 1992 to 1996, he worked as Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome, and covered events in Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa and various Mafia-related stories.
After working as Southern Europe correspondent, he worked as Asia correspondent from 1997 to 2003, based in Hong Kong (taking up his post just before the handover to China) and later in Singapore. From 2002 he was the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Washington, District of Columbia correspondent.
In 2005, Frei reported from the centre of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
On 1 October 2007, Frei became the first presenter of the British Broadcasting Corporation World News one-hour Washington-based news broadcast, British Broadcasting Corporation World News America, supported by correspondent Katty Kay. lieutenant currently airs on British Broadcasting Corporation News, British Broadcasting Corporation World News and several Public Broadcasting Service stations. Foreign a week in July 2008, Frei presented the London-based British Broadcasting Corporation News at Six on a relief basis.
A year later on 27 July 2009, Frei returned to London again to present the evening bulletin (again as a relief presenter).
In January 2011, Frei presented the BBCs Newsnight as a relief presenter. Frei presented his own British Broadcasting Corporation documentary on the life and times of the German capital, Berlin.
lieutenant ran from 14 November 2009. As part of his brief as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Washington correspondent, Frei presented a weekly Radio 4 show called Americana, which offers listeners slices of life in all of the country"s 50 states as well as political news from Washington.
Frei"s last Americana episode aired in May 2011.
Channel 4
lieutenant was announced in May 2011 that Frei would be switching from the British Broadcasting Corporation to Channel 4 later in the year. Frei would serve as the broadcaster"s Washington correspondent for Channel 4 News, as well as reporting for the channel"s other news programmes. He has since returned often from Washington and has become a semi-regular presenter on Channel 4"s evening news slot.
In October 2012, Frei headed Channel 4"s coverage of the United States Presidential election, including making a documentary "The American Road Trip: Obama"s story" in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.