Monica Maggioni
Monica Maggioni
Monica Maggioni is Chief Executive Officer of RaiCom in Rome. She is former President of RAI – the italian national public television – and Vice president of EBU – the European Broadcasting Union. She has been a war correspondent, editor and editor in chief for the main news outlets in RAI. After qualifying for the first Master school of Radio and Tv Journalism (SGRTV) in Perugia, and a brief experience at Euronews, in Lyon, she starts her career as a crisis envoyee in 1996, for Tv7, the weekly magazine of Tg1 RAI. Between 2000 and 2002 she covers the most violent phases of the Intifada and Israeli-Palestian conflict. In 2003 she is the only italian journalist embedded with the Usa ground forces in Iraq during the second Gulf War. In 2008 she moves to the USA to cover the presidential campaign that leads to the election of Barack Obama. She anchors Tg1 and several other programmes. In 2010 she is Editor of the foreign news team, and later of the Special Features section at Tg1. In 2010 and 2011 she produces two documentaries, both premiered at the Venice Film Festival: “Ward 54” – later awarded the Prix Mitrani in Biarritz – and “Out of Teheran”. In 2013 she is Editor in Chief of Rainews24, the all news channel of Rai. In August 2015 she is President of RAI. She has written three books: Dentro la guerra (Longanesi, 2005), La fine della verità (Longanesi, 2006), Terrore Mediatico (Laterza, 2015) and the essay Twitter and jihad (ISPI, 2015). She is an active member of the Administrative Board of ISPI (institute for the Study of International Politics), Milan, of the Italian Encyclopedia Institute Treccani, and of European Council on Foreign Relations. Monica Maggioni is European Deputy Chairman of the Trilateral Commission.
