Barnie Choudhury is an award-winning journalist. He worked for the BBC for 24 years, and his brand of journalism helped change UK laws and expose organised crime, health and racial inequalities in Britain. Barnie was the director of media and PR for the Commonwealth secretary general. He is a professor of professional practice at the University of Buckingham, a private institution, where he lectures on journalism, communications, marketing and leadership and writes a weekly column for a UK-based international newspaper, Eastern Eye.