Frances Harrison (born 1966) is a British journalist who worked with the

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

. She read English literature at

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge, colloquially "Tit Hall" ) is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1350, it is th ...

and did an MA in South Asian Area Studies at the

School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury area ...

at London University and an MBA at

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

She has been BBC Correspondent in the following countries: * 2011 to 2011 Head of News, Amnesty International, London * 2008 to 2009 Scholarship to Imperial College Business School, MBA * 2007 to 2008 London Religious Reporter * 2004 to 2007 Iran (she was bureau chief of the BBC's Tehran office) * 2000 to 2004 Sri Lanka * 1998 to 2000 Malaysia * 1996 to 1998 Bangladesh * 1993 to 1994 Pakistan Journalis

& Author of a book on Sri Lanka called '' Still Counting the Dead'' published by Portobello Books in the UK in October 2012 and in Canada by House of Anansi i & in India by Penguin. She has been a visiting research fellow at Oxford University and at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies where she wrote a handbook on Bangladesh. http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/research/islamic-parties-and-elections-bangladesh Website
www.stillcountingthedead.com
She is the Director of the

International Truth and Justice Project International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) is a human rights non-governmental organization established in 2013 to gather evidence to hold the Government of Sri Lanka accountable for war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil wa ...

. Reviews of Still Counting the Dead: ''Financial Times'', Victory at all Cost

"Ultimately, it is hard to read this book and not agree with the need for a fuller reckoning". ''The Observer'', Survivors of the bloody last months of Sri Lanka's civil war tell a story of injustice and horror that we cannot continue to ignore

"Anybody who has worked on Sri Lanka knows this story has had too little impact. With luck, this book can help change that". Feature in the ''National Post'': "It’s essential that the rest of the world open its eyes to the country’s bloody deeds.

Review in ''Monsoon Journal'': "An extraordinary book brilliantly crafted on stories from the survivors of the horrible war in Sri Lanka.

''The Hindu'': Untold Stories, Unseen Wa

‘.. it seems ironic that journalists often put between the covers of a book information that by definition ought to have made it to news columns or channels’. The Financial Express, An Account of Victory from the Perspective of the Defeate

The Hindu Chennai, Killings at End Stage of Lanka Civil War Unprecedente

Family

She is married to

Kasra Naji Kasra Naji () is an Iranian journalist and news reporter working for BBC Persian. He worked as a journalist in Tehran for a number of years during the rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad until he was repeatedly denied a press card. Naji is a special corre ...

, an Iranian journalist working for the BBC and they have one son.

References

* http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/francesharrison.shtml *https://www.npr.org/2007/08/13/12738737/frances-harrison-on-reporting-from-tehran {{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Frances 1966 births Living people BBC News people British women journalists Alumni of Imperial College London Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Alumni of SOAS University of London