About

Sumi is a freelance reporter, writer, editor, and news anchor. Currently based in Washington DC, she spent the last 14 years in Berlin covering politics, breaking news, immigration, and economics. Her reporting has taken her across Germany and Europe. 

Sumi is currently a Chief Presenter at BBC News. Currently she served as a senior news anchor and correspondent at DW News (Deutsche Welle), Germany's international broadcaster. Sumi reports on Germany for various international publications, including The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Global Post, Newsweek, PRI, and USA Today. She served as an editor at the Berlin Policy Journal, Germany's premiere English-language foreign affairs magazine.

She regularly moderates panels and conferences both in Germany and the US and lectures American university students at the CIEE Global Institute in Berlin. Sumi is an alumna of the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship program and part of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders Network. In addition to her native English, she speaks fluent German and Spanish, and conversational Tamil.