Background
He was born Mehrwan F. Amroliwala in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire the son of a Royal Air Force officer
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He was born Mehrwan F. Amroliwala in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire the son of a Royal Air Force officer
He was educated at the King"s School, Ely, Cambridgeshire and then at Street Chad"s College, Durham University.
He is an occasional relief presenter of the British Broadcasting Corporation News at One on British Broadcasting Corporation One. He also presented Crimewatch alongside Kirsty Young from January 2008 until March 2015. As his family name denotes, his ancestral hometown is Amroli in Surat District of the state of Gujarat in western India.
He graduated in 1984, having read Law and Politics.
After working as a chartered accountant, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation and, in 1990, became a British Broadcasting Corporation network television correspondent. In 1997, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel as a presenter of the channel"s evening programmes and from the beginning of 2001, he has presented the late afternoon news programme, first with Jane Hill and then with Maxine Mawhinney.
In April 2006, he was re-united with Hill on the 11 am–2 pm shift until March 2013 when the duo moved to the 2 pm–5 pm slot on Tuesday to Friday. Emily Maitlis co-presents on Mondays.
He has covered many major news stories, including reporting extensively from Northern Ireland.
He has also reported from Bosnia on the fall of Srebrenica and travelled throughout the Balkans during the conflict in Bosnia. Since January 2008, he has co-presented the programme Crimewatch with Kirsty Young and Rav Wilding (later Martin Bayfield), specialising in the solved cases, but missed the March 2015 episode, and was covered by Jason Mohammad. Since 8th September 2014, he has presented the flagship programme Global on British Broadcasting Corporation World News, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s international news channel.