We are delighted to announce that the new lead presenter of BBC OS is James Reynolds.

James Reynolds was born in Surrey in 1974 and grew up in New York, Brussels, and Jerusalem. After studying French & Spanish at Cambridge University, he joined the BBC in 1997. A year later he began a two-decade long career as a foreign correspondent – with postings to Santiago de Chile, Jerusalem, Beijing, Washington, Istanbul, and Rome.

From 2009-10, in between foreign postings, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2019 James returned to the UK to work as an anchor for BBC World News, the corporation’s international TV news channel. His interests include following the New York Yankees and researching American presidential history. He is the author of a children’s book, Eric & Scrunchball, based on his grandfather’s captivity in the Second World War. In his spare time, he volunteers as a reading assistant and enjoys floating in the Dead Sea.