Fiammetta Rocco grew up in Kenya and read Arabic at Oxford. For 25 years she was the culture editor of The Economist, and is now a writer and critic based in London. She runs the International Booker Prize and is an energetic advocate of reading and story-telling. Fiammetta has been the judge of numerous prizes for fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic. And her book, The Miraculous Fever Tree, about malaria and the discovery of quinine, was published in Britain and in America. She and her family live between London and Scotland.
Fiammetta is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.