Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet is a French journalist, writer and columnist. She writes for The Daily Telegraph in London particularly on international affairs, and for UnHerd. She is a regular commentator on the BBC, SKY News, Times Radio, BFMTV, Deutsche Welle, RTS, Radio Canada, ASharqNews, WION TV.

Career

Born in Paris, she began her career at VSD under the editorship of Maurice Siégel and Jean Gorini, as a reporter, then a correspondent in the United States. She then joined France Soir, before joining the Sunday Times as a correspondent in Paris in 1983. She was Paris bureau chief for the Sunday Telegraph from 1986 to 1989. After a stint at ELLE, she joined The European, as Paris bureau chief for the newspaper until 1998.
She joined The Daily Telegraph in 2007 as a columnist.
In an investigation of a controversy started in 2000 and still disputed today, she wrote that the France 2 State broadcaster correspondent Charles Enderlin's coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, particularly the killing of Muhammad al-Durrah, was respected by many journalists but regularly criticized by pro-Israel groups.
Contributions to other print media include:The Daily Telegraph

She has made television appearance for multiple channels, including:

She is a critic of Salafism.
She wrote that under President of France Emmanuel Macron the French-German relationship has notably deteriorated.
In January 2018, she was a co-signatory of a column published in Le Monde entitled “We defend a freedom to annoy, essential to sexual freedom” of a group of 100 women including actress Catherine Deneuve.

She is the granddaughter of Member of Parliament and former Popular Front minister Marius Moutet.