Fiona Harvey | |
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| Alma mater | Christ's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Journalist |
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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 theFinancial Times. Harvey has been the recipient of various professional awards, including twice winningThe 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 BBCWoman's Hour Power List 2020, a list of British women leading with regard to the environment.
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Harvey graduated with a degree inEnglish literature fromChrist's College, Cambridge in 1993.[citation needed]
Harvey began her journalistic work in 1994, as an editor forPC Week, 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 theFinancial Times for more than ten years, starting out as an IT andtelecoms reporter in 2000.[4][5][6] She has also written as afreelancer forScientific American, the New Scientist, and theEncyclopaedia Brittanica.
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 everyUnited Nations Climate Change conference since 2004, and interviewed many notable people,[7] includingMikhail Gorbachev,[8]Tony Blair,[9] andAntonio Guterres.[10]
Harvey is the recipient of various professional awards, includingThe Foreign Press Association London award for Environment Story of the Year in 2005 and 2007, and Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards in 2007.[11] BBCWoman's Hour named Harvey to the 2020 Power List, a list devoted to UK women with exceptional climate impact.[12]