Monique Villa

Monique Villa
Nationality France
Alma mater Journalists Training Center, Paris
Occupation CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation
Known for founding TrustLaw.

Monique Villa is the CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the founder of TrustLaw.[1][2][3]

Education

Born in Paris, Villa graduated from the Journalists Training Center in Paris.

Career

Villa began her career at Agence France-Presse (AFP) as a journalist. She was the Bureau Chief UK & Ireland, Agence France Presse from May 1991 to May 1996.[4] She worked as Director of Business Development and Sales Services, for the same company between May 1996 and May 1999.[5] She also served as Director of Strategy & Business Development from May 1999 to July 2000.[5]

Villa was the Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Reuters Media from October 2000 to April 2008. She was the Chairman, Action Images between September 2005 and April 2008.[6] Since May 2008, she has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters Foundation.[7] She also founded TrustLaw, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's global pro bono legal programme.[8]

Her recent work has focused on modern slavery, human trafficking, and corporate philanthropy.[9][10][11][12]

She is a board Member, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford. She is also a Board Member, Transparentem and Global Editors Network.[13] She has spoken openly about the detention of a Thomson Reuters Foundation colleague, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, currently detained in Iran. This has gathered a high volume of coverage across the international media.[14]

Conference appearances and interviews

Monique Villa, alongside Christy Turlington Burns and Livia Firth, spoke up for women’s rights at the 2014 Trust Women Conference held in London.[15]

In 2016, Villa was interviewed by Les Prendergast, Managing Editor of Ethisphere Magazine where she spoke on "Giving a Voice to Those Who Need It".[16]

During the 2016 Press Conference USA, Villa granted interview to VOA radio where she spoke on Modern Slavery and its dangers.[17] In 2017, She spoke at the Trust Conference America Forum.[18]

Villa granted an interview to El Diario Vasco where she touched on issues relating to Modern slavery.[19] She also granted an interview to China Daily.[20]

Write-ups and Op-Eds

Monique Villa has written a lot about "Using Financial Data to stop trafficking".[21][22] She also has unique perspectives on challenges facing women[23] and sexual harassment syndrome.[24]

Villa has written Op-Eds on the issue of migrant crisis during the 2016 World Refugee Day.[25] She wrote an Op-Ed for Marie Claire magazine on Sextortion issue.[26] She also wrote Op-Eds for Chatham House,[27] Weforum,[28] and for Evening Standard Magazine.[29][30]

In 2016, Villa wrote a featured blog piece for World Bank on the topic; "Where the glass ceiling is already smashed".[31]

TV/Video appearances and Public speeches

Villa has appeared on CNN video where she spoke on issues relating to Modern slavery.[32] She appeared on France 24 where she talked about women’s rights and the Arab Spring.[33]

Villa has appeared on TedX Talk event.[34] She spoke at 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival.[35] She appeared On CGTN America where she spoke about public transportation safety for women.[36] She also spoke at the Legatum Institute on the topic; "Slavery".[37]

Awards

  • 2012 - Named one of Ethisphere’s 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics[1]

See also


References

  1. 1 2 "Monique Villa 'most influential in business ethics'". thebaron.info. 24 January 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Fears for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after Boris Johnson remark". bbc.com. 6 November 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  3. ↑ Stephen, Castle (6 November 2017). "Boris Johnson Accused of Worsening Briton's Plight in Iran". nytimes.com. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Lucy, Purdy (15 October 2014). "Monique Villa: Human stories shine in the new media landscape". positive.news. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Monique Villa CEO, THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION". reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Pour que l'assistance juridique devienne un droit". liberation.fr. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "Gillian Anderson campaigns against modern slavery". bbc.com. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  8. ↑ Heidi, Newbigging (20 April 2012). "Thomson Reuters Foundation And DLA Piper - A Winning Team". bbc.com. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "Monique Villa Fights Slavery Through Giving". millennialmagazine.com. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  10. ↑ "Thomson Reuters lays the Foundation for future generations of journalists". theguardian.com. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  11. ↑ "Slaves on our Streets: 'Slavery is flourishing' and numbers are at historic high, warns leading humanitarian CEO". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  12. ↑ ED, CUMMING. "Business giants join the Evening Standard's modern slavery campaign". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  13. ↑ "Thomson Reuters Announces New Leadership Team for Foundation". newswire.ca. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  14. ↑ "British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran faces new charges, says husband Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent". theguardian.com. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  15. ↑ Rice, Francesca (20 November 2014). "Christy Turlington Burns and Livia Firth Speak Up For Women's Rights At The Trust Women Conference". marieclaire.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  16. ↑ "Ethisphere - A Special Report On Human Rights" (PDF). ethisphere.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  17. ↑ "Monique Villa on Modern Slavery - Press Conference USA". voanews.com. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  18. ↑ Alonso, Nicolás (29 April 2017). "El tráfico de personas y la esclavitud, una crisis olvidada". internacional.elpais.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  19. ↑ Urbizu, Claudia. "Villa: Hay que empoderar a la mujer convenciendo al hombre, no con cuotas". diariovasco.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  20. ↑ Vadas, Samantha. "Chinese women find their way through the glass ceiling". chinadaily.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  21. ↑ Bentham, Martin (2 May 2017). "Bank staff will be trained to spot trafficked women under new anti-slavery scheme". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  22. ↑ Lewis, Nick. "Modern Slavery - Using financial data to tackle modern slavery". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  23. ↑ "Equal pay and work-life balance among biggest challenges for women". dw.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  24. ↑ "World Refugee Day: We Should All Take A Closer Look At The Law Behind Migrants' Rights". opendemocracy.net. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  25. ↑ "World Refugee Day: We Should All Take A Closer Look At The Law Behind Migrants' Rights". redonline.co.uk. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  26. ↑ "Hackers Could Steal Your Data and Use It to Extort Nude Photos—in Fact, They're Already Doing It to Hundreds of People Every Day". marieclaire.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  27. ↑ "Price of a lipstick's sparkle". chathamhouse.org. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  28. ↑ "To fight the scourge of fake news, let's shine a light on the world's under-reported stories". weforum.org. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  29. ↑ "Monique Villa: Social entrepreneurship, where the glass ceiling is already smashed". standard.co.uk. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  30. ↑ "Education can help break the appalling cycle of sex-trafficking". standard.co.uk. 13 October 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  31. ↑ "Blog post of the month: Where the glass ceiling is already smashed". worldbank.org. 10 April 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  32. ↑ "Slavery Generates 150b per year". cnn.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  33. ↑ "Monique on France 24 talking about women's rights and the Arab Spring". france24.com. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  34. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkkDNT5rQw
  35. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDjhKLLR8I
  36. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J9_f3eNJg0
  37. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM4d9Zu1mvk
  38. ↑ "Monique Villa Honored with Champions for Change Awar". icrw.org. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  39. ↑ "MEET THIS YEAR'S FREEDOM AWARDS RECIPIENTS". ecpatusa.org. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
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