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Janine di Giovanni

Author, Award-Winning Foreign & War Correspondent; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School & Executive Director The Reckoning Project

Janine di Giovanni
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Janine di Giovanni Biography

Janine di Giovanni began her work many years ago when she was introduced to the late Human Rights Lawyer Felicia Langer in Jerusalem. At the time, Langer was one of the few Israeli Jewish lawyers defending Palestinians in military court. After following Langer for several months, Di Giovanni abandoned her academic life for a life of field work and writing. Witnessing the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda set her on a track of working in some of the darkest corners of the world, exposing human rights abuse.

Di Giovanni is now an award-winning writer, as well as a human-rights and war-crimes educator and adviser. She is currently director of the Reckoning Project Ukraine, a USAID-sponsored transitional justice project she formerly ran in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen for the UN Democracy Fund.

Prior to that, she was a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, teaching human rights. She is also a columnist at Foreign Policy and The National in Dubai and an award- winning author, journalist and war reporter.

In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her their highest non-fiction prize, the Blake Dodd, for her lifetime body of work. In 2019, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, her current book, The Vanishing: Faith, Loss and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets, which chronicles the disappearance of Christian monitories, was released in October 2021. The writer Salman Rushdie described it as “a tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with all of the great Janine Di Giovanni’s passion and literary grace.”

She is the also author of the award-winning book, The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches from Syria, which has been translated into 28 languages and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Prize. It was deemed “searing and necessary” by the New York Times, and shortlisted for the Helen Bernstein Prize at the NYPL. She has authored eight other books on war and conflict.

From 2017 to 2018, Di Giovanni was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a professor of practice in human rights at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Administration

During the Arab Spring and the Syrian war, Di Giovanni was the Middle East editor at Newsweek, reporting on international security, terrorism, human rights, and transitional justice. She was the senior foreign correspondent for the Times of London prior to that, reporting on more than a dozen armed conflicts on four continents. As a 2016 Pakis Scholar at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Di Giovanni focused on international law and international security. Prior to that, she was a contributing editor for two decades at VanityFair, where she won the National Magazine Award for Reporting, and many other awards.

Di Giovanni has reported widely on war, conflict, and its aftermath for nearly 30 years in the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa. She has investigated human rights abuses on four continents. She is the subject of two long-format documentaries, including the widely acclaimed 7 Days in Syria and Bearing Witness. Her TED talk, “What I Saw in the War,” has received over 1 million views on YouTube. In 2016, she was awarded the International Women Media Foundation’s prestigious COURAGE Award.

Di Giovanni is also non-resident International Security Fellow at the New America Foundation and an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She is a former Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, given in recognition of her work with victims of war trauma.

Di Giovanni has won more than fifteen major awards for her extensive work in conflict zones and during humanitarian crisis in Palestine/Israel, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, East Timor, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Rwanda, South Africa, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bahrain, UAE, Algeria, Turkey, Greece, Vietnam, and other countries.

She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She carries British, French, and American nationalities and lives with her son, Luca Costantino Girodon, in Manhattan. She is a board member of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting and Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/07/2024.

Janine di Giovanni Speaking Topics

  • How to Change the World One Step at a Time: The Rise of Civil Society

    Starting an NGO that has a real impact in a war zone documenting war crimes has shown Janine di Giovanni that community-based projects have the most effect on urgent issues. In this talk, di Giovanni shows how to start an NGO that has a real impact in communities and globally.

  • Documenting War Crimes in Real Time: How to Hasten Justice

    The Executive Director of The Reckoning Project, Janine di Giovanni, explains how to bring criminals to justice by taking direct testimonies admissible in court.

  • Resilience and Youth in Gaza

    The war in Gaza has thrown a light on a part of the world many Americans know nothing about. Janine di Giovanni has worked in Gaza for 33 years, watching entire families grow up. There is so much more to Gaza than Hamas. What is the history of the region, and how can it be rebuilt? Can a two-state solution ever work?

  • Women, Peace and Security

    Why Can't Women End Wars? UN Statistics show that when women negotiate peace, they have far more long-term sustainable results. Janine di Giovanni digs more into this while referencing the article she wrote for Foreign Policy.

  • Is Ukraine a Forever War?

    As an expert working in the field in Ukraine, Janine di Giovanni explains the humanitarian and military situation in Ukraine, what might happen in the future, and how it will affect all of Europe and the US. Is there a future for the US in NATO?

Janine di Giovanni Videos

  • Seriously Entertaining: Janine di Giovanni on All That Glitters
    Seriously Entertaining: Janine di Giovanni on "All That Glitters"
    JANINE DI GIOVANNI, war reporter and Executive Director and Co-Founder of THE RECKONING PROJECT, a war crimes unit in Ukraine that documents...
  • Seeking Justice: Rebuilding Hope after the War Janine di Giovanni
    Seeking Justice: Rebuilding Hope after the War Janine di Giovanni
    Janine di Giovanni is a war reporter who has covered 19 armed conflicts and wars, and has witnessed three genocides. In her work, she focuses on...
  • Global Women's Summit: Bearing Witness: Ukraine
    Global Women's Summit: Bearing Witness: Ukraine
    An editor, a photojournalist, and an activist — each bearing witness to the savagery in Ukraine. Sevgil Musaieva, Chief Editor, Ukrainska...
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Janine di Giovanni Books

  • Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption
    Ghosts by Daylight: Love, War, and Redemption
  • Place at the End of the World
    Place at the End of the World
  • Madness Visible: A Memoir of War
    Madness Visible: A Memoir of War
  • The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo
    The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo

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Janine di Giovanni is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as How to Change the World One Step at a Time: The Rise of Civil Society, Documenting War Crimes in Real Time: How to Hasten Justice, Resilience and Youth in Gaza, Women, Peace and Security and Is Ukraine a Forever War?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Janine di Giovanni for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Janine di Giovanni generally travels from ParisFrance and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Anna Holmes, Joyce Maynard, Lynn Sherr, Laura Snyder and Jeffrey Kluger. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Janine di Giovanni for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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