Aidan White was born in Ireland and educated in the United Kingdom where he learned his trade as a journalist. He joined the International Federation of Journalists as General Secretary from The Guardian in 1987. Today he campaigns for the rights of journalists and has written extensively on the social and professional conditions of journalism. His most recent publications include Journalism, Civil Liberties and the War on Terror and Making a World of Difference: Global Unions at Work.
He has promoted industry co-operation on safety and security issues and is a founder of the International News Safety institute. Under his leadership the IFJ has grown into the largest organisation of journalists in the world with a range of projects and solidarity programmes that cover the globe. The IFJ represents more that 500,000 journalists in 117 countries.
“I have been wonderfully lucky,” he says, “My work with the IFJ gives me a chance to admire at close hand the sacrifice, commitment and talent of thousands of first-rate journalists on whose behalf we are privileged to work. We have to build networks for solidarity that can help them.
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