Background
He is the son of former British Broadcasting Corporation newsreader and current British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 presenter Michael Buerk.
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Roland Buerk
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Buerk was educated at the Royal Grammar School, a day independent school for boys in his former hometown of Guildford in Surrey, followed by the, from which he graduated with a degree in Political Science in 1995.
Career
He was the Tokyo Correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation News and is best known for his coverage of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. He left the British Broadcasting Corporation in mid-2012, to work for Nissan in the United Arab Emirates. After graduation, Buerk joined Independent Television News (ITN) in London as a graduate news trainee, and was assigned to Channel 5 News as a producer after he completed an eighteen-month course.
After leaving ITN, Buerk became a freelance correspondent in Bangladesh and filed news reports for the British Broadcasting Corporation. He survived the 2004 Asian Tsunami and reported on the effects of the tsunami on British Broadcasting Corporation News.
In January 2009, Buerk was appointed Tokyo Correspondent and reported on the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and reported from inside the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. In 2012, Buerk left the British Broadcasting Corporation to work for the Japanese motor manufacturer Nissan, in the United Arab Emirates.
