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Phil Rees is a Welsh writer, reporter and television producer who has specialised in international relations. He has won more than a dozen international awards for his work.
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Background
Rees graduated from Oxford University in 1982. In the same year, he joined the BBC as a trainee journalist and began his career as a reporter on television news in Northern Ireland. He has covered Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas during his career. He has written widely and presented or produced more than fifty documentaries.
At the BBC, his reports appeared on the nightly TV news, Newsnight, Correspondent, World Service Radio, NPR and BBC World News satellite and cable channel. In 2006, Rees set up Out of Office Films, a TV production company based in London. Between 2006 and 2013, the company made over twenty documentaries, including productions for Channel 4, ZDF, Al Jazeera, ERT (Greece) and Swedish television.
In 2013, Rees left Out of Office Films to become Executive Producer in the Investigative Journalism Department at Al Jazeera Media Network in Doha, Qatar.
His awards include two from the Royal Television Society for best foreign affairs documentary (1994 & 1998). From 1986 - 2002, Rees covered Asia, the Middle East, South and Central America for the BBC’s news and current affairs’ department.