Caroline Hawley Biography
Caroline Hawley is a television personality working as a BBC Diplomatic Correspondent who is interested in the human impact of international news. Previously, she worked as the BBC’s Baghdad correspondent. Before that, she was a Middle East correspondent based in Jordan.
Caroline Hawley Age
Hawley is 57 years old. She was born in 1967, in Nigeria.
Caroline Hawley Height and Weight
She stands at an average height of 5 feet 7 inches (approximately 1.7 m or 170 cm) and is of moderate weight.
Caroline Hawley Nationality
She is of British nationality.
Caroline Hawley Education
Hawley was educated at Wycombe Abbey, an independent school for girls in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. She also graduated from Pembroke College of Oxford University where she studied Arabic and Persian.
Caroline Hawley Parents
Caroline is the daughter of Ruth Howes and Sir Donald Hawley, a British colonial lawyer, diplomat, and writer. Her parents got married in 1964. However, her father passed away on January 31, 2008, at the age of 86. Caroline has a brother and two sisters, but not much information is available about them.
Caroline Hawley Husband
Hawley has chosen to keep her marital status a secret, so it is unclear whether she is married, single, or in a relationship. She has also not disclosed whether or not she has children. In November 2005, Hawley and her partner were having dinner at the Grand Hyatt in Amman when it was bombed by Al-Qaeda. Fortunately, they were not injured in the attack.
Caroline Hawley BBC
Caroline is a BBC Diplomatic Correspondent who is interested in the human impact of international news. She has been working as the BBC’s Baghdad correspondent since the end of the war that toppled Saddam Hussein in April 2003. Before that, she was a Middle East correspondent based in Jordan.
Caroline joined the BBC in 1994 as a newsroom journalist for the BBC World Service. She then became a West Asia and later an African reporter. In 1999, she moved to the Middle East and covered Egypt, Libya, and Sudan from Cairo. Two years later, the BBC posted her to Jordan, from where she traveled extensively to Iraq and Jerusalem, where the peace process of the early 1990s had long since broken down.
During the second Palestinian uprising, Caroline reported extensively from the West Bank and Gaza and covered Israel’s long siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. She spent three months in Iraq before the war and then returned to Baghdad in time to report on the fall of Saddam Hussein’s hometown, Tikrit.
Caroline studied Arabic and Farsi at Oxford University. She then became a print journalist in Jerusalem, covering the end of the first Palestinian uprising and the peace process that led to Yasser Arafat’s return from exile in 1994.
Caroline Hawley Illness
Hawley reported in war zones for a long time. Due to the nature of her job, she was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as were many reporters who worked in the same line of duty as her.
Caroline Hawley Salary
Her salary is under review.
Caroline Hawley Net Worth
Her estimated net worth ranges from $1 million to $5 million.
