Melissa BELL
- Senior International Correspondent
- CNN
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Bio
Melissa Bell is senior international correspondent for CNN based in the network's Paris bureau, covering European and global news. Most recently her work has focused on the war in Ukraine, reporting, over much of the last year, from inside the country and from Moscow.
Melissa Bell joined CNN in October 2016 from France 24, where she was a political editor before being promoted to international affairs editor and correspondent.
She has extensive knowledge of Africa and the Arab world and has covered most major news story for the network's French and English-speaking channels, from the Haitian earthquake to Egyptian revolution and the war in Mali.
Melissa Bell has a degree in politics from Warwick University and speaks French and English fluently
