Christine Ockrent

Christine Ockrent born 24 April 1944 is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television She interviewed AmirAbbas Hoveyda the former Iranian prime minister in Qasr prison after the Islamic revolution in 1979 It was the last interview with Hoveyda before his execution Ockrent was born in Brussels Belgium daughter of Belgian diplomat Roger Ockrent She attended the Cours Hattemer a private school in Paris She graduated from the Institut dÉtudes Politiques de Paris Sciences Po in 1965 She worked for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes while in charge of morning news for Europe 1 in France In 1981 she became the first female anchor of the 8 pm news on the Antenne 2 television channel Afterwards she worked for TF1 as anchor of the evening news at France 2 and since 1990 for France 3 as the host of different news magazines She was chief of the LExpress editorial office For over a decade she presented France Europe Express a TV show about European issues She is a fervent supporter of a united Europe signing the Soros letter for a federal answer to the crisis of the euro Ockrent held the number two post at the Société de laudiovisuel extérieur de la France until she was relieved in May 2011 She refused to resign saying that she had had to endure nine months of manoeuvres that have sullied my honour and reputation She is a former member of the SaintSimon Foundation thinktank In 2002 Ockrent wrote the preface to Ma guerre à Lindifference English My war against indifference a book by United Nations official JeanSélim Kanaan She is the author of more than a dozen works including La Double vie dHillary Clinton The Double Life of Hillary Clinton Robert Laffont 2001 Les Oligarques le système Poutine The Oligarchs The Putin System Robert Laffont 2014 Le Prince mystère de lArabie The Mysterious Prince of Arabie Mohammed Ben Salman les mirages dun pouvoir absolu Robert Laffont 2018 Ockrent is the life partner of Bernard Kouchner a French politician and the former foreign minister with whom she had a son Alexandre born 11 March 1986 Source Article Christine Ockrent from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA