Meet the Judges

Lyse is the BBC’s award winning Chief International Correspondent and Senior Presenter for BBC World News television and BBC World Service Radio.
She is regularly deployed to anchor special news coverage from the field and interview world leaders as well as reporting breaking news stories. Lyse also reports across the BBC’s networks in the UK.
She plays a key role in the BBC’s coverage of the Middle East from where she has been reporting for the past two decades, covering all the major crises in the region.
Lyse is also a regular visitor to Afghanistan and Pakistan from where she has been reporting since 1988.

Nandita Das is an actor, director and social activist based in India.

She has acted in more than 40 feature films in 10 different languages. She made her directorial debut with Firaaq in 2008 and Between the Lines marks her debut as a playwright and theatre director.

Nandita has become known for taking on films that expose taboos and ask difficult questions. She is an advocate for issues of social justice and human rights. She was the Chairperson of Children’s Film Society between 2009 and 2012. And she has become the face of the Dark is Beautiful campaign.

Nandita Das has been conferred the ‘Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters’ by the French Government.

Nunu Ntshingila was born into an entrepreneurial family in Soweto, South Africa in the 1960s.

Nunu started working in advertising when South Africa was still under the apartheid system. She worked her way up, through senior marketing positions at the likes of Nike and the South African Tourism board, at a time when South Africa was facing dramatic changes. In 2011, Nunu was appointed to the global board of Ogilvy & Mather. Today she is passionate about the role of technology in driving social inclusion in Africa.

Nunu has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Financial Mail for her work in leading and transforming the advertising business in South Africa. She loves family, architecture and food.

Sadly British Ethiopian poet Lemn Sissay is no longer able to be a judge for Outlook Inspirations.