Behrouz Afagh

Behrouz Afagh (Persian: بهروز آفاق) is Head of BBC World Service's Asia & Pacific Region.

He is editorially and managerially responsible for the BBC's broadcasts and multimedia services in the Azeri, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Kyrgyz, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Sinhala, Tamil, Urdu and Uzbek languages.

Afagh joined BBC World Service in 1983.

He set up the BBC Central Asian Service in 1994 and became Editor of Eurasia Region in 1999.

He became Head of the Asia Pacific Region in April 2006.