Selina Downes

Selina Downes’ background

She now works for Reuters Television, where she presented Money Matters for TRT World.

Selina spent several years in South-East Asia covering the aftermath of the Boxing Day Tsunami in Banda Aceh, Cambodia’s UN-backed trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, Thailand’s military coups, the Korean nuclear crisis, China-Taiwan relations and the tragedy of human trafficking.

While based in Thailand as Asia correspondent for Al Jazeera English (2006-2011) she interviewed four successive Thai Prime Ministers about the ongoing political crisis in the country.

Selina is in much demand in the corporate world as a media trainer, presenting corporate videos and working as a host, moderator and speaker at conferences and other events.