Caroline Wyatt is replacing Antonia Rados as chair of the jury for the 15th edition

A correspondent for the BBC for many years, Caroline Wyatt will chair the jury 2008 of Bayeux-Calvados Award

Caroline Wyatt has been a BBC Defence Correspondent since October 2007, covering the work of British Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and defence-related issues in the UK. She was previously BBC Paris Correspondent from June 2003 to September 2007, following almost three years as the BBC Moscow Correspondent, where she covered President Putin's early years in power. Between 1993 and 2000, she was BBC Berlin Correspondent and later BBC Bonn Correspondent, travelling extensively across eastern Europe in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

In spring 2003, Caroline Wyatt was one of a team of BBC correspondents embedded with British troops during the conflict in Iraq, reporting on the war and its aftermath in and around Basra. Her first experience of Iraq was in 1998, during the Desert Fox campaign, when she reported from Baghdad. From November 2001 to April 2002, Caroline covered the British and US campaign in Afghanistan from the Northern Alliance headquarters in northern Afghanistan, and later peacekeeping efforts in Baghram and Kabul. She also covered the conflict in Chechnya.

Caroline Wyatt has reported from Israel, and was based in Albania and Kosovo in 1999, reporting the NATO campaign and the subsequent return of Kosovo Albanian refugees to their homes. She was born in Australia in 1967 to British diplomats and attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Woldingham, Surrey. She studied English and German at Southampton University, including a six-month exchange programme at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA.

Caroline joined the BBC as a News and Current Affairs trainee in January 1991, after gaining a postgraduate diploma in print journalism at City University in London. She has also presented The World Tonight, Saturday PM and From Our Own Correspondent on BBC Radio 4, Europe Today, Newshour and Outlook on BBC World Service Radio.