Cristina Odone

Background

Odone was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to an Italian father, Augusto Odone, and a Swedish mother.

Education

Odone studied French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford.

Career

She has written for several newspapers, and was formerly the editor of The Catholic Herald, and deputy editor of the New Statesman. Her half-brother was Lorenzo Odone, after whom Lorenzo"s oil is named. Odone"s father was a World Bank official, which led to the family regularly moving.

Odone went initially to Marymount School, then later to the National Cathedral School, Washington, District of Columbia

Odone edited The Catholic Herald from 1991-1995.

Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washington, District of Columbia, as an advisor to European companies. She resigned from The Catholic Herald to be able to finish her second novel, A Perfect Wife.

In 1996, Odone became the television critic for The Daily Telegraph, a position she held for two years. In 1998, Odone became deputy editor of the New Statesman.

Odone resigned in November 2004.

Foreign six years Odone was a weekly columnist for The Observer. In 2005, Odone wrote and presented a Channel 4 documentary directed by David Malone called Dispatches: Women Bishops. lieutenant subsequently became apparent that Hari was responsible, using pseudonymous sockpuppet accounts to make edits attacking Odone and his critics.

A frequent contributor to radio and television debates, Odone is presently a columnist for The Daily Telegraph.

In an piece for the Telegraph, "Gays will be faking it if they marry in church", Odone stated gay weddings would be a "pantomime ceremony". Odone is married to Edward Lucas, a writer for The Economist magazine.

The couple have one child. Lucas has two children from a previous marriage.

Politics

She is the director of the new Centre for Character and Values at the Legatum Institute.

Views

Quotations: "Gays will be faking it if they marry in church".

Connections

colleagues:

Johann Hari