I am an independent writer, journalist and correspondent who has lived in London and Sydney. For the past 15 years, I’ve reported on current affairs, global and humanitarian issues, politics, geopolitics and international development in the Pacific region, as well as recent events in Europe, for the international media.

My news and feature stories have been published by IPS (Inter-Press Service), Al Jazeera, The Diplomat, The Guardian, World Politics Review, Thomson Reuters Foundation/Reuters, Mongabay, The Brunei Times and the New Zealand Herald. I have also contributed news analysis and commentary to The Interpreter at Australia’s Lowy Institute for International Policy, and Responsible Statecraft at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft in Washington.

In 2010, I worked for a term as Features Editor at The Brunei Times newspaper, during which I was based in the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan.

From the mid-1990s to 2009, I lived in Oxford and London in the United Kingdom where I wrote arts reviews and features for The Oxford Times newspaper, UK-based and international arts magazines and undertook guest editor projects. During these years, I travelled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, including Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Jordan and the Palestinian territories, as well as North and West Africa.

I completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours Degree at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and further studies in World Arts and Journalism at the University of London in the UK.

Member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia)

2014    Awarded Global Issues Press Fellowship by United Nations Foundation

2008    Writer’s Bursary awarded by the a-n Network, sponsored by Forma (United Kingdom)

For any enquiries, please contact me via email at: catherinewilson@hotmail.com