Monica Maggioni an Italian journalist. Currently President of RAI, the Italian national public broadcaster, 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.
She began her career at Euronews in Lyon, before becoming crisis correspondent for Tv7, the weekly magazine of Tg1 RAI in 1996. Between 2000 and 2002 she covered the most violent phases of the Intifada and Israeli-Palestian conflict. In 2003 Monica was the only Italian journalist embedded with US ground forces in Iraq during the second Gulf War. In 2008 she moved to the USA to cover the presidential campaign.
Monica anchors Tg1 and several other programmes. In 2010 she became editor of the foreign news team, and later of the special features section at Tg1.
In 2010 and 2011 she produced 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 became Editor in Chief of Rainews24, the all news channel of RAI, becoming President of RAI in August 2015
She has written three books: Dentro la guerra, La fine della verità, Terrore Mediatico, and the essay Twitter and jihad.
Monica 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.
