Barbara "Baba" Lybeck is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 journalist. She has a Master's degree in Philosophy, majoring in General Literature. She has worked as a news presenter for the Finnish TV channel Nelonen

Nelonen

Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...

 from 1998. Lybeck quit presenting news in 2009 and moved to Yleisradio

Yleisradio

The Finnish Broadcasting Company , abbreviated to YLE , is Finland's national broadcasting company, founded in 1926. YLE is a public-broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled...

 to work as a journalist.

She has worked as the presenter and chief judge of the quiz show

Quiz Show

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s...

 Uutisvuoto

Uutisvuoto

Uutisvuoto is the Finnish version of the popular British television quiz show Have I Got News For You. Broadcast on Saturday nights on YLE TV1 since 1998, the show receives very high viewing figures.Uutisvuoto mainly follows the same format as Have I Got News For You...

since autumn 2010 after Peter Nyman

Peter Nyman

Peter Nyman is a Finnish journalist and television reporter. He is a presenter of TV program Uutisvuoto and hosts Premier league studio in Canal+. Before Uutisvuoto, Nyman was known as a host of Mediapeli....

 moved to MTV3

MTV3

MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Finnish Broadcasting Company’s YLE1 took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV , due to the channel getting its revenue from running commercials...

 to work as a news presenter. Previously Lybeck has worked at Radio City and presented the NO TV show on MTV3, as well as the Finnish Top 40 music show on YLE and the Swedish language

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 shows Bosses Bio and Talking Heads on FST

Finlands Svenska Television

YLE FST5 is YLE's Finland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland...

. Lybeck was also present in the TV show Viemäri-TV.

Baba Lybeck's grandparents were author Tito Colliander and artist Ina Colliander.