1. Katherine Emily Holt was born on 1972 and is a British photojournalist, who works primarily across Africa and the Middle East to gather humanitarian and development stories for NGOs and private companies, as well as the UK and global media.
21 Facts About Kate Holt
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Kate Holt was born in Zimbabwe in 1972 to British and South African parents.
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Kate Holt grew up in Newfoundland and was educated in the UK at St Anne's, Windermere, from the age of eleven.
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Kate Holt returned there each summer during her years as a student.
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Kate Holt completed her studies with a History Masters from St Andrew's University, Scotland, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Photojournalism from The London School of Printing, London.
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Kate Holt began her career with the BBC, working on Breakfast News and BBC News 24.
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In 1999, Kate Holt moved to Nairobi, Kenya, to cover news events throughout East and West Africa.
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In 2001, after the September 11 attacks in the US, Kate Holt travelled to Pakistan and documented the influx of refugees over the border form Afghanistan as US and British troops closed in on the Taliban.
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In 2003, Kate Holt traveled into Iraq with the first medical convoy to offer support to both Basra and Nazariyah as the coalition troops toppled Saddam Hussein.
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In 2009, Kate Holt relocated to Kabul, Afghanistan and spent three years covering the ongoing conflict there for a variety of British newspapers including the Daily Mail, The Guardian and the Financial Times.
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In February 2012, Kate Holt launched Arete, a media and communications agency specialising in humanitarian storytelling, media strategy and training, and which produces content for NGOs, charities and corporations in order to tell "stories that make a difference".
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Kate Holt covered the siege of the Westgate shopping Centre in Nairobi after it was attacked by Terrorists in 2013 and produced a series of photographs and stories for media outlets including the BBC.
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Kate Holt is a regular contributor to The BBC, The Guardian and The Mail on Sunday.
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Kate Holt's work has been published in The Independent, The Times, The Observer, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and Financial Times.
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Ruud Lubbers resigned from his post after Kate Holt's article was published due to the negative publicity, although he maintained that he was innocent of any allegations.
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Kate Holt is a trustee of RE:ACT disaster response and the Royal Humane Society.
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Kate Holt is director of the company and regularly undertakes assignments for Arete's clients.
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Kate Holt has been nominated twice for the Amnesty Award for Humanitarian Reporting.
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Kate Holt was highly commended by Amnesty International for her coverage of the drought crisis in the Horn of Africa in 2011.
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In 2003, Kate Holt traveled to Iraq and photographed the impact of the UK and US invasion on the civilian population in Basra and Nazariah.
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Between 2010 and 2011, Kate Holt was embedded with AMISOM troops from Uganda and Burundi on the frontline of Mogadishu.