Monique Villa

Monique Villa, Chief Executive of the Reuters Foundation, is a business leader with broad international media industry experience and a strong record of success in launching high profile initiatives and growing revenues.

Managing Director of Reuters Media and Chairman of Action Images until May 2008, Monique is a French national, and has been managing the picture and text news business for the Reuters News Agency in the last six years. She has transformed the picture business and negotiated important deals for Media and Editorial, including the recent partnership with the International Herald Tribune to jointly produce their business pages, both in print and online. 

The first part of her career was in Agence France-Presse (AFP) where she held a number of senior journalistic and management positions. As a correspondent with AFP she reported for a number of years from Paris and Rome, became Deputy Head of its political news service, then Bureau Chief for UK and Ireland, based in London. In 1996, she became Director of Strategy and Business Development at the headquarters in Paris, with responsibility for AFP’s major partnerships worldwide. 

Married, with two sons, Monique has studied Law and Political Science and has a Diploma from the Paris Centre de Formation Des Journalistes.