Olivia Ward is a Toronto Star writer on foreign affairs, with more than 13 years’ experience as a foreign correspondent. She was the Star‘s UN correspondent, then headed the Moscow and London bureaus. She has reported from South Asia and the Middle East, and on wars in Chechnya, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia, Iraq, and the conflict in Israel and Palestine.

Read Olivia’s recent Toronto Star columns

As a print journalist, Ward has won both national and international awards, including the Michener award for public service journalism and a National Newspaper Award for international reporting.

She has also collaborated on films with Shelley Saywell, including the documentary A Child’s Century of War, inspired by Ward’s reports from Chechnya. Their last film project, Devil’s Bargain, focuses on the catastrophic consequences of the international small arms trade.

An earlier collaboration, with Simcha Jacobovici of Associated Producers, was based on Ward’s reporting on the trafficking of women in India, titled The Selling of Innocence. It won an Emmy.

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