Coomarasamy has worked primarily for the BBC: • 1991. Production assistant in the BBC Moscow bureau, after which he freelanced in Moscow as a reporter-producer • Producer for the
BBC World in London • December 1994. Returned to Moscow as the bureau's bi-media producer, covering major stories such as the war in
Chechnya • November 1997. In Warsaw as the BBC correspondent covering events in Poland, the Baltics and Ukraine • From 1999 to 2003. The BBC's Paris reporter, covering for both radio and television • From February 2005. Correspondent in Washington, D.C., for North America • 2009. Presented
Europe Today for the
BBC World Service • 2010. Joined the presentation team for
Newshour on the
BBC World Service ==Personal life==