Journalist since 1983, Gilles Delafon is a Foreign Policy commentator with "La Matinale" the morning show of the french private TV network Canal + (view the videos).
Born in 1960, graduated in communication from Lyon III university, he started in journalism with different radio networks, before moving to Lebanon as a war correspondent for three years (1985-1989). In Beyrouth, he was working for the french national radio network "Europe 1", the daily newspaper "Le Matin de Paris" and the weekly "Le Point".
Born in 1960, graduated in communication from Lyon III university, he started in journalism with different radio networks, before moving to Lebanon as a war correspondent for three years (1985-1989). In Beyrouth, he was working for the french national radio network "Europe 1", the daily newspaper "Le Matin de Paris" and the weekly "Le Point".
Back in France, he then joined "Le Journal du Dimanche" as a reporter at large, Columnist and chief editor (1989-2008) covering the fall of the Berlin wall, the first Iraq war, the drug trafficking in Colombia, the election of Bill Clinton, the war in Yugoslavia, the intifada in Palestine, the genocide in Rwanda, the rise of Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, Gerhard Schroeder...
Then, after the last war in Iraq which he covered from Baghdad in 2003, he moved to diplomatic affairs and globalisation issues, interviewing world leaders such has Jose Manuel Barroso (European Commission President), Kofi Annan (UN Secretary General), Pascal Lamy (WTO Director), Mohammad El Baradei (IAEA director and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize), Romano Prodi (Italian Prime Minister), Abdoulaye Wade (President of Senegal)...
Gilles Delafon is also the author of six books, including an investigation on the Hezbollah movement: "Beyrouth, les soldats de l'islam" (Stock, 1989), "Bill Clinton. La nouvelle Amérique" (Lattès, 1993), "Violente Amérique. Une démocratie en armes " (Lattès, 1995), "Dear Jacques, Cher Bill. Au coeur de l'Elysée et de la Maison Blanche, 1995-1999" with Thomas Sancton (Plon, 1999), "Vote.com", with Dick Morris (Plon, 2002). "Allo, la terre? Ici la France...", (La Martinière, 2007). "Abdoulaye Wade. Une vie pour l'Afrique. Entretiens avec Jean-Marc Kalfléche et Gilles Delafon" (Michel Lafon, 2008).