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Anita Makri

Managing editor, Environment and Urbanization

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Telephone: +44 (0)20 3463 7399
Languages: English, Greek (fluent), Spanish and Italian (both basic)

Senior editor, writer and producer specialising in global development and science in society, with a focus on the environment, health and human rights.

Anita has also served as a mentor with the New York Academy of Sciences and on the boards of the European Federation for Science Journalism and the Association of British Science Writers.

In 2018 she was a visiting journalist at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center residency on science for development, and has helped organisations – funding/development agencies, NGOs, professional associations – to strengthen their editorial/media/storytelling work.

Expertise

Publishing, media and journalism. Global development, environment, health and human rights. Science in society.

Before IIED

  • As a writer, journalism and commentary has been published in The Guardian, National Geographic, Devex, The Lancet, Nature/Nature Medicine and Undark, covering a range of global issues from health risks, climate and sustainability to Indigenous knowledge and public trust, often focusing on the global South.
  • Founded WorldWise, a Substack newsletter for discerning readers and producers of journalism on global issues, in 2020.
  • Senior editor and deputy managing editor, SciDev.Net
  • Editor, BMC journals  
  • Also previously edited a UK news service focusing on global health threats, after starting as a researcher on environmental health risk and vulnerability analysis.

Education

  • MPH, epidemiology track, George Washington University
  • MA, environmental science and policy, Clark University
  • BA, environmental science and policy (neuroscience concentration), Clark University

Current work

Managing the editing and production of the world-leading E&U journal.

Independent writer/journalist, producer and editorial adviser.