MARY FITZGERALD

Mary Fitzgerald is a journalist based in Marseille, France

 I am a writer, researcher and consultant specialising in the Euro-Mediterranean region with a particular focus on Libya. I have reported on and researched Libya since February 2011 and lived there in 2014. I am now based in Marseille in the south of France.

I have conducted research on Libya for International Crisis Group (ICG), the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European University Institute (EUI) among others. I have consulted for a number of international organisations working in Libya including in the areas of peace building, local governance, and civil society. I am an Associate Fellow at ICSR, King's College London and an Associate Research Fellow at ISPI in Milan.

I have worked on wider initiatives with UNESCO, the Anna Lindh Foundation, the British Council and other cultural organisations. I have a particular interest in memorialisation processes in post-conflict and divided societies and contributed to the 2020 UN Special Rapporteur report on memorialisation.

In 2021, I initiated and developed the Capital of Europe, Women of Europe project with the Friends of Europe think-tank, where we reinvented the Brussels metro map to pay tribute to women who have helped shape the continent past and present.

As a journalist, my work has appeared in publications including the Economist, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Guardian and Monocle. I have also worked on a number of radio documentaries for the BBC, one of which - on post-conflict Northern Ireland - won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award. I began my career reporting on Northern Ireland for domestic and international media, covering paramilitary feuds and the sectarianism that endured beyond the 1998 peace agreement. I spent seven years as a roving staff foreign correspondent for the Irish Times, reporting from more than 40 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. I am a former Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post.

I am a contributing author to "The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath" an edited volume published by Hurst/Oxford University Press.

I have also worked as a media trainer and served on the jury of the 2015 Samir Kassir Awards which honour exceptional journalism across the Middle East and North Africa.

Member of the Board of Trustees at Friends of Europe.

Member of the Global Women's Forum Rising Talents network.

Member of the European Young Leaders EYL40 network.

Website: www.mary-fitzgerald.com

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