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Allie Wharf |
Senior Fellow
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Allie Wharf has spent the last fifteen years working as a producer and director for BBC News and current affairs, working most recently as the BBC’s senior foreign producer on the daily flagship news and current affairs program, Newsnight. Ms. Wharf has worked extensively in Afghanistan, Africa, Iraq, and elsewhere in the Middle East, covering a range of core conflict, development, and economic issues. She reported on the ground in Iraq for the BBC both before and throughout the current Iraq war and in Afghanistan for the through November of 2001.
In addition to journalism, Ms. Wharf conducted a four month secondment throughout Mozambique, under the auspices of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, authoring a report for the Department for International Development (DFID) of the British Government, regarding the effectiveness of foreign assistance in country.
Having left her position with BBC News, Ms. Wharf is now is both freelance journalist and works for Afghan Mother and Child Rescue, a small British NGO which builds maternity clinics in the Panjsher Valley, north of Kabul and recently made a film of their work there (which can be viewed on the organization’s website at www.amcr.org.uk). She also works with and supports a Namibian conservation charity, Save the Rhino, which not only protects the Namibian Black Rhino but works in local communities throughout northern Namibia to educate about and promote conservation. |
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