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Leslie Crawford was born in Argentina, she lived as a child in Brazil and completed her studies in Great Britain.

She was one of the first women to be accepted into the prestigious Balliol College, in Oxford, where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Her career started in journalism at the agency Reuters, bound between London and Madrid.

She joined The Financial Times in 1990 as Chilean correspondent where she made public the transition towards democracy.

In 1993 she was made the correspondent for Africa, with her base in Nairobi. She travels constantly, covering the intervention of the United Nations in Somalia, strikes on the state of Nigeria and genocide in Rwanda.

Towards the end of 1994, she was appointed Mexican correspondent at the same time that an economic crisis unfolds due to the devaluation of the peso.

Towards the end of 1998 she returns to London, where she joins an editorial department of the newspaper as joint director of the critique and analysis department.

In June 2000 she is named as the Chief correspondent in Spain where she has remained up until today.

Leslie Crawford has been a consultant of human rights issues for the Ford Foundation and contributes to articles to the Journalists Protection Committee in New York.