Meet Karen Attwood:

Karen Attwood is an award-winning writer and journalist with 17 years’ experience working on international and UK national newspapers and magazines. She is a former staff writer at the Independent on Sunday, the Independent and the Press Association and has been published in all UK newspapers. 

She was on the launch team of The National, Abu Dhabi’s first English language newspaper. She has lived in Japan, France, Mexico and the UAE and she speaks French and Japanese. She writes regularly about women’s rights and gender issues.