Fiona Harvey

This article is about the environmental journalist. For the alleged stalker of Richard Gadd who inspired a Netflix TV series, see Fiona Muir-Harvey.

Fiona Clare Harvey is a Cambridge-educated environmental journalist of longstanding with the London-based newspaper, The Guardian,^[1][2] a position she came to after a decade's work for the Financial Times. Harvey has been the recipient of various professional awards, including twice winning The Foreign Press Association London award for Environment Story of the Year, being named Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards, and being named to BBC Woman's Hour Power List 2020, a list of British women leading with regard to the environment.

Fiona Harvey
Harvey in 2018
Alma mater	Christ's College, Cambridge
Occupation	Journalist

Early life and education

Harvey graduated with a degree in English literature from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1993.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Harvey began her journalistic work in 1994, as an editor for PC Week, and for some years worked writing and editing in the area of technology news, moving thereafter into work on climate change reporting.^[3] Harvey worked for the Financial Times for more than ten years, starting out as an IT and telecoms reporter in 2000.^[4][5][6] She has also written as a freelancer for Scientific American, the New Scientist, and the Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

After that, Harvey began work focused on environmental journalism with the London-based newspaper, The Guardian;^[1][2] in that capacity, she has attended almost every United Nations Climate Change conference since 2004, and interviewed many notable people,^[7] including Mikhail Gorbachev,^[8] Tony Blair,^[9] and Antonio Guterres.^[10]

Awards and recognition

Harvey is the recipient of various professional awards, including The Foreign Press Association London award for Environment Story of the Year in 2005 and 2007, and Journalist of the Year at the British Environment and Media Awards in 2007.^[11] BBC Woman's Hour named Harvey to the 2020 Power List, a list devoted to UK women with exceptional climate impact.^[12]