Annalisa Piras

Who is Annalisa Piras?

Annalisa Piras is an Italian journalist and film-maker. She wrote, produced and directed the acclaimed film documentary " Girlfriend in a Coma". She was the London Correspondent for L'Espresso 1997-2011 and for La7 TV for six years. In 2006-2007 she was the first Italian president of the London Foreign Press Association. In 2013 she founded the Wake Up Foundation, with the aim to raise public awareness about the current state and decline of the Western Societies through film and storytelling.

She is a regular member of the BBC Dateline London panel. She also provided analysis on European and Italian Current Affairs for The Guardian.

As a political and social commentator she frequently appears on BBC News, Sky News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CNBC.

Her BBC Radio 4 documentary The Italian Patient was shortlisted as the FPA Best Story of the Year by a UK-based foreign correspondent. Her TV documentary on the Hutton Enquiry, written and directed for La7 TV, was shortlisted for the same award in 2003.

As EU senior editor, she was part of the initial team which launched Euronews, the pan-European multilingual news television channel, on 1 January 1993 in Lyon, France.