Fiammetta Rocco is a journalist and author. She is a Senior Editor at The Economist. [1]
Rocco was born to a Franco-Italian family and grew up in Kenya. She went on to study Arabic at the University of Oxford. [2]
Rocco is the Administrator of the International Booker Prize [2] [3] and she is on the board of directors for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. [4]
She was the Culture Editor at The Economist between 2003 and 2018. [1]
In 2003, she published a book called The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World about the discovery of quinine, which was the BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. [5] [6]
In 2021, Rocco was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [3]