Fiona Harvey

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Fiona Harvey
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Harvey in 2018
Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge
OccupationJournalist

Fiona Clare Harvey is a Cambridge-educated environmental journalist of longstanding with the London-based newspaper, The Guardian , [1] [2] a position she came to after a decade's work for the Financial Times . Harvey has been the recipient of various professional awards, including twice winning The Foreign Press Association London award for Environment Story of the Year, being named Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards, and being named to BBC Woman's Hour Power List 2020, a list of British women leading with regard to the environment.

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Early life and education

Harvey graduated with a degree in English literature from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1993.[ citation needed ]

Career

Harvey began her journalistic work in 1994, and for some years worked writing and editing in the area of technology news, moving thereafter into work on climate change reporting. [3] Harvey worked for the Financial Times for more than ten years.[ when? ] [4] [5]

After that, Harvey began work focused on environmental journalism with the London-based newspaper, The Guardian ; [1] [2] in that capacity, she has attended almost every United Nations Climate Change conference since 2004, and interviewed many notable people, [6] including Mikhail Gorbachev, [7] Tony Blair, [8] and Antonio Guterres. [9]

Awards and recognition

Harvey is the recipient of various professional awards, including The Foreign Press Association London award for Environment Story of the Year on two occasions,[ when? ] and Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards.[ when? ] [10] BBC Woman's Hour named Harvey to the 2020 Power List, a list devoted to UK women with exceptional climate impact. [11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Fiona Harvey – Networks of evidence and expertise for public policy". www.csap.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  2. 1 2 "Guardian wins at the 2019 SEAL Journalism Awards". The Guardian. 2020-02-14. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  3. ↑ "Fiona Harvey Biography". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  4. ↑ "Fiona Harvey – RSA". www.thersa.org. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  5. ↑ "Fiona Harvey". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  6. ↑ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "It's in the news: we're decarbonising!". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  7. ↑ "Gorbachev call for global law on water access". Горбачев Фонд. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  8. ↑ Harvey, Fiona (2022-11-12). "'Devastating impact': Tony Blair hits out at PM's slashing of overseas aid". The Observer. ISSN   0029-7712 . Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  9. ↑ Harvey, Fiona (2022-11-04). "UN chief warns 'we will be doomed' without historic climate pact". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  10. ↑ "Speaker Fiona HARVEY". IUCN World Conservation Congress 2020. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  11. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 – Woman's Hour – Woman's Hour Power List 2020: The List". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
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