Rob Gifford
Rob Gifford served as NPR’s China correspondent from 1999-2005. He is currently NPR’s London correspondent.
Gifford speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and he has traveled from Tibet to the Muslim Northwest, to the border with North Korea filing news and feature stories for NPR News. Gifford also travels widely in East Asia for NPR. He has covered elections in Taiwan and East Timor, diplomatic visits to North Korea, and produced a range of features on everything from Christian missionaries in Mongolia to Internet start-ups in Hong Kong.
Gifford was born and raised in the U.K. where he worked for three years at the BBC World Service before moving to the U.S. in 1994 to attend graduate school. He also spent two years at NPR member station WGBH in Boston. Gifford holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Durham University, UK, and an M.A. in Regional Studies (East Asia) from Harvard University.
