Atika Shubert

Atika Shubert is an award-winning CNN correspondent based in London with extensive reporting experience in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Before arriving in London, Shubert was based in Jerusalem, reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her reports included coverage of Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiations, Palestinian militant rocket attacks into Israeli towns as well as fighting between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah within Gaza. Shubert was also based in Tokyo for CNN. Shubert started her career with CNN as a producer in Jakarta, Indonesia where she covered the fall of Indonesia's President Suharto in 1998, East Timor's transition to independence in 1999 and the 2002 Bali bombings. Shubert also interviewed Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid in 2001 just before his impeachment. She covered stories out of the Philippines and Singapore, including an interview with former President of the Philippines Josef Estrada in the midst of his corruption trial. Shubert graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics from Tufts University in Boston and speaks Bahasa Indonesian.