François Picard Biography
François Picard is a journalist with dual citizenship in France and the United States. He is the host of The Debate, a French current affairs talk show. He hosts the journalist roundtable discussion show The World This Week on Fridays.
François Picard Age
He was born in the United States of America.
François Picard Education
Picard graduated from Swarthmore College with honors. He attended the Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne for two semesters.
François Picard Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, her mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
François Picard Career
Picard began his career in local radio in the Hudson Valley, working at WKIP in Poughkeepsie, WRWD, and WAMC. He has received numerous awards for his coverage of local news, including those from the New York State National Association of Broadcasters, the Associated Press, and the National Association of Broadcasters. He returned to France in 1990, where he worked for Radio France International, Marketplace radio, UPI, and Eurosport. Assignments included the commemoration of D-Day in 1994, the construction of EuroDisney (now DisneyLand Paris), and the launch of the Eurostar service between Paris and London. Two Olympics, the Tour de France, and the 1994 Football World Cup were among the sporting events he covered.
His first African assignments for Radio France International took him to Mali and Somalia before he was named staff bureau chief for RFI in Abidjan at the age of 27. From 1995 to 1998, he covered the escalating political tensions in Ivory Coast for RFI and Le Monde, as well as civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Picard covered the entire region with several trips to Nigeria, including the 1997 funeral of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti in Lagos, from the boycotted election of Henri Konan Bédié in the Ivory Coast in 1995, the arrival of the mercenaries Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone, and the April 1996 street fighting in Liberia’s capital Monrovia. He was one of the foreign reporters trapped in a hotel in 1997.
Picard joined Eurosport after returning to Paris and working for RFI’s reporting assignment and business desks. Picard was an opening night news presenter for the English-language channel when France 24 debuted on December 6, 2006. He covered the 2007 French presidential election, the 2008 Dubai financial crisis, and the Ivory Coast election and subsequent return to civil war in 2010.On Fridays, he hosts the journalists’ roundtable The World This Week, which began in collaboration with the International Herald Tribune and then The Daily Beast, with foreign editor Christopher Dickey serving as a regular panelist until his death in July 2020.
François Picard Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.