Jonah Fisher

Who is Jonah Fisher?

Jonah Fisher is a correspondent for BBC News and is currently the first ever resident correspondent for Myanmar. Jonah Fisher is an experienced BBC correspondent and during an eventful 10 years working for the BBC has been based in Eritrea, Sudan, London, South Africa, Nigeria and most recently, Thailand. He has worked on many features for the BBC including: interviewing Buddhist monk Wirathu and members of Burma's Muslim community who have been caught up in clashes with Buddhist nationalists in 2013, accompanying Greenpeace tracking whales hunted by the Japanese whaling fleet; and violence against journalists by Sudanese security forces outside Khartoum, Sudan where he was attacked. From 2012 to 2014, Fisher was the BBC's correspondent in Bangkok where he covered anti-government protesters in Bangkok as demonstrators try to unseat the Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. He can be followed on Twitter at @JonahFisher.