Adi Raval
Next Generation National Security Fellow, 2009-2010
Senior White House Producer, BBC
Adi Raval is the senior White House producer for the BBC. In this capacity, he is responsible for the network's overall coverage of the Obama administration.
In his almost five years at the BBC, he has served as the Baghdad Bureau chief in Iraq for several months in 2007 as well as part of the network's coverage of the war between Israel and Hezbollah while based in Beirut, Lebanon.
Before coming to the BBC, Adi was the State Department producer for ABC News. In this capacity, he spent three months in Egypt before the war in Iraq. During the war, he was based at US Central Command headquarters in Qatar. He also spent three months in Baghdad, Iraq in 2004 as the assistant Baghdad Bureau Chief.
Adi graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont in 1998. He was born and raised in San Francisco, California.