Patrick Markey Email & Phone Number

Paris, FR

Lagos, Nigeria

Paris Area, France

News editor on English desk at AFP Paris, editing news, rewriting copy, translating French news stories from Europe and Africa

Cairo Governorate, Egypt

* Acting bureau chief for Egypt and Sudan, covering buildup to 2018 elections and the country's security and economic reforms.

Algeria, Tunisia, Libya

*Managed network of correspondents and stringers across North Africa, including on-ground reporting on Tunisia's crisis post-2011 revolt, Algeria's transition politics, Islamic State's defeat in Libya and the 2014 battle for control of Tripoli.* Two stints in Iraq's Mosul for frontline reporting and coordinating coverage of battle against Islamic State.

Baghdad

*Managed Baghdad bureau text, television and photo teams, covering the departure of US troops from Iraq, growing sectarian tensions and the rise of Islamic State militancy that eventually declared its caliphate in 2014. * Reported from Northern Syria on the rise of Kurdish forces at the start of the country's war.

Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador

* Based in Caracas and then Bogota, covering Andean region as correspondent and Chief correspondent, reporting on Venezuela under Hugo Chavez, OPEC diplomacy, Colombia's paramilitary and guerrilla movements, and emerging market economies of all three countries.* Reported from Haiti after 2010 earthquake.* Reported from Cuba after Fidel Castro's illness.*.

Master'S Degree, Journalism, Media Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Politics And Asian Studies