Mónica Villamizar

Who is Mónica Villamizar?

Mónica Villamizar Villegas is a Colombian journalist, born in Austin, Texas, United States. She was a London correspondent for CBS Newspath, until June 2013 when she rejoined Al Jazeera English as a Buenos Aires correspondent.

Ms Villamizar holds a Master in Political Science from Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. Before joining CBS, she worked for Al Jazeera English as a Washington, DC based reporter and correspondent in Bogotá, and for Caracol TV's Noticias Caracol. Besides her native Spanish, she speaks English, French, Italian, and Japanese.

She received a Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar award in 2006 for best TV feature or report, for a series of reports on South Africa's peace process broadcast November 2005 on Caracol TV.