Marcia Poole

Marcia Poole is the senior director for communications and information. Before joining Amnesty International, Marcia worked for five years with the United Nations, with the peacekeeping missions in Timor-Leste and Kosovo and at the UN System Staff College in Turin, Italy. Prior to that, she worked for 17 years for the BBC, starting out as a broadcast journalist. 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 Mass Communications, specialising in Journalism, from Rio de Janeiro’s Pontificia Universidade Catolica and worked for Reuters before moving to the UK in the early 80’s. She has a MA in Mass Communications from Leicester University and a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.