journalist Tokyo correspondent
Wingfield-Hayes was educated at Bishop Luffa School, an Academy school in Chichester, England. He studied South East Asian Studies at the University of Hull (Bachelor) and Far Eastern Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Master of Arts).
He is the great-nephew of Major-General Eric Hayes. British Broadcasting Corporation
Wingfield-Hayes has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation since 1999. He was the British Broadcasting Corporation Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2006.
In 2007 he moved to be the British Broadcasting Corporation Moscow correspondent.
In 2010 he was appointed the British Broadcasting Corporation Middle East correspondent based in Jerusalem. During his time in the Middle East he covered the revolution in Tunisia, the fall of Mubarak in Egypt and the Libyan civil war.
During the Tahrir Square protests he was detained in Cairo, by the secret police. He was the first British Broadcasting Corporation correspondent to enter Tripoli after the fall of GaddafiLibyan Civil War.
The convoy he was travelling in was ambushed by pro-Gaddafi militia during the fighting in Tripoli.
He covered the Bahraini uprising. On 10 October 2012 the British Broadcasting Corporation announced the appointment of Rupert Wingfield-Hayes as its Tokyo correspondent. Wingfield-Hayes has been based in the Tokyo bureau since 2012, reporting across the British Broadcasting Corporation’s news services, including the British Broadcasting Corporation’s international news channel, British Broadcasting Corporation World News, in addition to news services within the United Kingdom. In November 2013, Wingfield-Hayes was one of the first foreign journalists in to Tacloban, Philippines after it was struck by Typhoon Haiyan.
