Robert Holloway

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Robert Holloway's appointment as Director of the AFP Foundation caps a career in journalism spanning more than three decades and four continents. One of his first assignments as a junior reporter was to cover the 1974 revolution in Portugal; while serving as UN correspondent, he coordinated the team of AFP journalists and photographers in New York covering the 9/11 attack.

Between those events, he spent six years in the Middle East and four years in Australia. He lived in Beirut from 1978 to 1981, reporting on the war in Lebanon for The Irish Times and other publications. He was in the city during the Israeli siege in the summer of 1982. He was Cairo correspondent for The Times of London until 1984.

After a three-year spell working for the OECD in Paris, he joined AFP in 1988. He was appointed bureau chief in Sydney in 1990, and deputy chief editor for foreign news four years later.

He has also served as AFP's editor in chief and deputy managing editor.

Mr Holloway has wide experience in media training. He was a member of the editorial board of the Paris-based Journalists in Europe programme for several years. He has taught at schools of journalism in France and at the United Nations and has trained AFP's own staff in the Middle East and Africa as well as in Paris.