SPEAKER: CHRISTINE OCKRENT

Journalist and author

Christine Ockrent is producer and anchor of the weekly current affairs program France Europe Express on France 3 Television. She is also president of the advisory board of METRO International France, and a columnist for various French and Swiss newspapers.

Previously she was editor in chief of the weekly news magazine, L'Express.

She has had an outstanding carrer in television, both as producer of documentaries and anchor of the evening news, where she shaped a style as the first woman presentor and editor.

Ms. Ockrent was also deputy director general of TF1 Television and an editor with RTL Radio.

She began her career in broadcast journalism at NBC News and worked for eight years at CBS' 60 Minutes. She has been awarded several French and international distinctions for her work in TV journalism.

She is a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques in Paris and studied at Cambridge University.

She has written eight books, one of which translated in German ("Wie Julius Caesar den Euro erfand" Rowohlt).

She is on the board of Reporters sans frontières, Aspen France and International Crisis Group (ICG). She has been awarded the French Legion d'Honneur.