Federica Cocco was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. She was educated in Italy, the United States and England and currently works in Paris as editor in chief of Owni.eu.

In the past, she worked for Amnesty International, the United Nations Refugee Agency, the Centre of Investigative Journalism in London and Wired Italy and UK.

Since she joined the newsroom last year, OWNI won the Online News Association award for excellence in journalism and was selected as a finalist at South by Southwest.

Twitter: @federicacocco