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I've been part of World Have Your Say for a while now so I thought it was about time I properly introduced myself. I joined the ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service just over a year ago, fresh out of university and extremely excited to be part of such a well respected news institution.

I've worked on several other programmes in the department but World Have Your Say is where i'm happiest, and not just because of the abundance of snack food always on offer!

I talk A LOT, something which always got me into trouble at school and at home but which serves me extremely well on World Have Your Say. It's great to have a job where I spend large parts of day talking to interesting people from all over the world about such a huge variety of subjects.

When I'm not working I'm usually busy doing something. In my spare time I like to travel. I've lived in Argentina and Portugal and go back to Portugal often to visit friends and surf.

Apart from surfing I love most sports, although I am definitely 'jack of all trades, master of none' when it comes down to it.

Perhaps unusually for a girl, I'm a huge football fan. I watched nearly every game of the World Cup in 2010 and felt generally let down the day after the final when I realised that there was still a month to go before the football season started again in the UK. For my sins I support a team that doesn't play in the Premiership - Derby County - but I'm still hopeful that we will one day return to our former glorious selves!

One final thought: 'A family is a place where minds come together'. I forget who said that but it sums up really well what it's like to be part of the World Have Your Say team.