Nelufar Hedayat (born 1 January 1988) is a journalist and presenter for Fusion Media Network who has worked across the BBC, Channel 4 and international broadcasters. Nelufar’s work has often focused on cultural upheaval experienced by women, children and families in conflict and hostile places. In the six years Nelufar worked for the BBC, she has presented, co-produced and written documentaries for television and radio, including the award winning Women, Weddings, War and Me, as well as Shot for Going to School, and Music, Money & Hip Hop Honeys. She has also presented and hosted the flagship live news programme Newsround for 3 years winning an award for her short film The Kids of Kabul.
Nelufar has produced and written radio documentaries and features for BBC Radio 4 on Afghan child suicide bombers and on faith and marriage for BBC 1xtra.
In 2015, Nel filmed her second programme for Unreported World, in which she met the health workers risking their lives to vaccinate children against polio in Pakistan, where the Taliban actively target and kill polio health workers. Her first Unreported World was filmed in Vietnam, where she investigated how dog thieves are making millions in the highly lucrative and illegal dog meat trade and are stealing thousands of pet dogs from family homes to meet demand. Nelufar was also a reporter for multi-award winning Channel 4 News covering domestic issues for the programme since 2014.