About Roland de Courson

Roland de Courson is a French journalist born in Spain (Madrid, 1970).

A graduate of the Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Lille and of the Gobelins School of Image in Paris, he started his career as a reporter in several local French-language newspapers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, before joining Agence France-Presse (AFP), an international news agency, in 1994. He has since been based in Paris, Madrid, Perpignan, Tokyo and Hong Kong, and is currently a global news editor in Seoul.

Roland was the founder and the editor of the AFP Blogs (Correspondent, Making-of) which over the years became the couch for all the agency’s reporters confronted with life-changing or traumatic situations during their assignments. Some of these testimonies have been compiled in a book in French, Qu’auriez vous fait à ma place ? (“What would you have done in my place?”), published in 2017 by Editions des Arènes.