Di Giovanni is a geopolitical analyst and award-winning war reporter with 35 years of field experience, specializing in war crimes. She has reported from 18 war zones and covered three genocides. Her expertise spans human rights, democracy, transitional justice, accountability, and Women, Peace, and Security, with a regional focus on the Middle East, the Balkans, Ukraine/Russia, and Africa.

She is the CEO and Executive Director of The Reckoning Project, an NGO documenting war crimes, funded by the EU and USGOV. A former Visiting Fellow at Yale Law’s Schell Center for Human Rights, she has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ highest nonfiction prize. She has held senior fellowships at Yale’s Jackson School, the Council on Foreign Relations (as an Edward R. Murrow Fellow), Johns Hopkins’ Stavros Niarchos Agora Institute, and Tufts’ Fletcher School.

Her work exposing war crimes has had a profound impact, earning her more than a dozen awards. The AAOV named her one of the world’s 100 most influential people in reducing armed violence. She has received the prestigious IWMF Courage in Journalism Award and two Amnesty International prizes.

She has published nine books, including The Vanishing, on Christians in the Middle East, and The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, which has been translated into 28 languages and hailed as “necessary and devastating” by The New York Times. The book won two awards and was shortlisted for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.

A longtime contributor to Vanity Fair and a Global Affairs columnist for The National, she is a non-resident International Security Fellow at New America and Geneva CPS. She has taught at Yale, Columbia SIPA, and Sciences Po and regularly moderates high-level panels at the World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, United Nations, and World Bank. Her TED Talk, What I Saw in the War, filmed at USIP, has garnered over a million views.

Previously an adviser on the Syria conflict for UNHCR, she has provided policy guidance to the EU, NATO, and other senior officials. She was also a delegate at William Hague’s London conference on sexual violence in conflict.

A graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA), she also holds Master’s degrees from Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the University of London. A multinational, she resides in Paris and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.