Virginia Moncrieff is currently a producer at ABC-TV's Four Corners program.

She has reported and produced at the Corporation's Foreign Correspondent, Lateline, 7.30 Report, SBS News, and has been a radio and print journalist.

Virginia has a special interest in Southeast Asia having spent time there as a child. She has travelled - for both work and leisure - extensively throughout China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

She has also made films in the US, Italy, Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Germany, the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East for both Australia and Northern American television.

Virginia has covered the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Gulf war, the Kosovo conflict, the overthrow of President Estrada, the Asian financial crisis of 1998, terrorism in the Philippines, US Foreign policy directions in light of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, and made a critically acclaimed documentary on the incarceration of former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in 1999.

This is Virginia's first trip to India, which she chose as her "great unknown".