Alissa de Carbonnel spent more than seven years based in Moscow, reporting on the former Soviet Union for Reuters, Agence France-Presse, and other publications. Her reporting on the Islamist insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus, Ukraine and other flash points shapes her interest in security, governance, and human rights issues. She also writes about science and technology, with a focus on Internet regulation, privacy issues and the use of data in policymaking.
She holds a B.A. in governement and comparitive literature form Cornell University, and has dual French-Amercian citizenship. She has also written for Deutsche Presse-Agentur, USA Today, the Globe & Mail and The Moscow Times. Her reporting has gained recognition on various journalism blogs, including the KSJ tracker and the Washington Journalism Center.
She is curently a postgraduate at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government reading Public Policy.