Harriet Marsden, The Week UK

Harriet Marsden is a senior staff writer and podcast panellist for The Week, mostly covering world news and writing the weekly Global Digest newsletter. Before joining the site in 2023, she was a freelance journalist for seven years, working for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent among others, and regularly appearing on BBC Radio London and Times Radio. She has a particular interest in gender equality and attended the 67th Commission on the Status of Women as a UN Women UK delegate.

In 2021, Harriet was awarded the “journalist-at-large” fellowship by the Local Trust charity, and spent a year travelling independently to some of England’s most deprived areas to write about local culture and community activism. She has a master’s in international journalism from City University, and an undergraduate degree in languages from the University of Cambridge, specialising in Latin American studies. She has also worked as a journalist in Bolivia, Colombia and Spain.