Lucie Morillon
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Radio: Bio of Lucie Morillon
April 23, 2006
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Lucie Morillon works in the Washington, DC office of Reporters Without Borders. After earning a masters degree in history from the University of Nantes, and another in communications and politics from the Institut Supérieur du Management Public et Politique, Morillon joined the French National Consultative Commission of Human Rights (CNCDH). While on assignment there, she worked on a resolution whose aim was to improve the impact of the policy and decision-making process on persons with disabilities. Passed by the CNCDH general assembly in 2000, it was transmitted to the ministerial sectors concerned.
That same year, Morillon joined the international press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders as an assistant researcher for the European and former USSR desk, at a time when Milosevic’s Serbia was cracking down on journalists. She organized an international symposium in France on media trends in the former Yugoslavia and the role that should be played by the international community. Next, she assumed the position of the organization’s international coordinator. She managed the development of Reporters Without Borders' branches in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland and its offices in Abidjan, Bangkok, Montreal, New York and Tokyo.
Transferred to Washington, DC in July 2004, she opened a representative office in the American capital, where she supervises Reporters Without Borders USA in partnership with the New York office. She covers issues related to press freedom in the United States, which can be summarized for the most part by an increasing number of attacks against the right of reporters to maintain source confidentiality. She supervises press relations so as to ensure that the American media give more coverage to press freedom abuses abroad. The aim is to point a finger at repressive countries and to challenge their international reputation. She informs the political decision-makers concerned of the organization’s positions.
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