Marcia Poole

Marcia is responsible for the communications work that is co-ordinated and delivered through the Press Office and the Digital Communications, Publications and Information Resources departments. Before joining Amnesty International, she worked for the United Nations, with the peacekeeping missions in Timor-Leste and Kosovo and at the UN System Staff College in Italy.

She also worked for many years for the BBC, where she headed the World Service’s Burmese and Brazilian sections, as well as its Training department. Marcia was born in Brazil where she graduated in Journalism. She holds a MA in Mass Communications from Leicester University and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.