After graduating from Bristol with a degree in German and Italian in 1995, Katya established herself as a journalist with ORF in Vienna.  Since 1998, she has been a foreign correspondent with the BBC based in Madrid and also reporting extensively from the Middle East.  She is a regular presenter of HARDtalk.

Her talk 'Being a war correspondent, a woman, a German and other preconceived ideas' takes place at 5.15pm on Monday 10 December in Lecture Theatre 3 at the rear of 17 Woodland Road. Mulled wine and Christmas nibbles will be served afterwards.