Patrick de Saint-Exupéry

Patrick de Saint-Exupéry started his career at age 19 after winning a young reporters award.

He worked for several newspapers :

* "France Soir Magazine" starting in 1983
* "France Soir" at the foreign service in 1987
* Freelancer for "l'Express" and "Grands Reportages" in 1988
* "Le Figaro" at the foreign service, starting in 1989

During the course of his career he covered Africa, Cambodia, Canada, Liberia, South Africa, the Gulf War, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Rwanda, and finally Moscow, where he was a permanent correspondent from 2000 to 2004.

In 2005 he started working on Africa again, as a journalist for "Le Figaro".

He won the Albert Londres award in 1991 for its series on the Liberian civil war and the end of the apartheid. Patrick de Saint-Exupéry is also a member of the Albert Londres award's jury.

Since January 2008, he took a leave from the Figaro newspaper to launch, with Laurent Beccaria, the "XXI" newsmagazine where he is editor-in-chief.