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When did Nisha Pillai start presenting on BBC World? I wonder if Newsnight was a try out before she joined World, or whether she'd already been on World and they were genuinely testing her out for a role on Newsnight? In any case, she stayed on World for years. She was a fairly regular presenter of Hard Talk and BBC4 News, though.

This old BBC profile says she joined BBC World in October 1995, but does point out that she was an award-winning Panorama reporter before then - so maybe not such an odd choice. Perhaps interestingly, her editions of Newsnight would have been some of the last few weeks of Newsnight being broadcast (on tape-delay) on BBC World.