Janine di Giovanni

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

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Janine di Giovanni Biography

Janine di Giovanni is Executive Director and CEO of The Reckoning Project, an organization dedicated to documenting war crimes in Ukraine and building cases for prosecution and international mechanisms. She is currently also the Tom and Andi Bernstein Visiting Fellow for Human Rights at Yale Law School, the Schell Center for Human Rights.

Di Giovanni’s human rights work draws on her experiences as an award-winning war correspondent, the author of nine books, and her academic career specializing in human rights, war crimes, and Women, Peace and Security. Previously, she ran a similar initiative for the UN Democracy Fund in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

Currently, di Giovanni is a global affairs columnist at Foreign Policy and The National in Dubai, and a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair. She is also a nonresident International Security Fellow at the New America Foundation and an Associate Fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A French, British and U.S. citizen, she is a Board Member of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting and Association of Foreign Press Correspondents.

From 2021 to 2022, di Giovanni was Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Stavros Niarchos SNF Agora Institute, leading initiatives on transitional justice. She was a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs from 2018 to 2022, teaching courses on human rights. Prior to that, she 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 Affairs. Di Giovanni has won more than a dozen awards for her writing. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her its highest non-fiction prize, the Blake-Dodd, for her lifetime body of work.

A graduate of the elite Iowa Writer’s Workshop, di Giovanni received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her non-fiction writing in 2019. She chronicled the disappearance of Christian minorities in her most recent book, "The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets," released in October 2021 and hailed by Salman Rushdie as “a tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with all of the great Janine di Giovanni’s passion and literary grace.” Di Giovanni’s The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria has been translated into 28 languages, and was a Finalist for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Prize, having been deemed “searing and necessary” by the New York Times.

During the Arab Spring and the Syrian war, di Giovanni was the Middle East Editor at Newsweek reporting on international security. She was the Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Times of London prior to that, reporting on more than 18 armed conflicts. As a 2016 Pakis Scholar at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, di Giovanni focused on international law. She was a contributing editor for two decades at Vanity Fair, where she won the National Magazine Award for Reporting during the war in Kosovo, along with many other awards.

Di Giovanni’s experience in war zones spans 33 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 one million views on YouTube. In 2016, she was awarded the International Women Media Foundation’s prestigious COURAGE Award. She is a former Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University’s School of Journalism, given in recognition of her work with victims of war trauma.

She is the mother of Luca Girodon, a pre-law student at Yale College.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/27/2025.

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.

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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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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, Is Ukraine a Forever War? and . The estimated speaking fee range to book Janine di Giovanni for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Janine di Giovanni generally travels from Paris, France and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dambisa Moyo, Joyce Maynard, Laura Ling, Parag Khanna and Amy Goodman. 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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