Frederica Jansz

Frederica Jansz is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in the UK. She is a journalist and writer who specializes on political, gender violence, and social justice issues. She was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of ‘The Sunday Leader’ newspaper in Sri Lanka and has over two decades of experience as a war correspondent, an investigative journalist, and frequent commentator on human rights abuses and war crimes. She covered Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict for two decades often reporting from the battle front. She has actively participated in journalist safety training and skills building exercises in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan. She was also a television host and anchor on weekly shows that focused on news, current affairs and social justice issues during her two-decade long career as a journalist in Sri Lanka. She continues to be seen as an authority on press freedoms in South Asia, speaking at global venues and being interviewed for television audiences.