Natalie is the first woman to be chosen as Director and Executive Editor of Le Monde. Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Strasbourg and Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris, Natalie first started working as a correspondent journalist in ex-Yugoslavia and central Europe for Liberation, RFI and the BBC. She made her first step at Le Monde in 1996, as the Russian correspondent. She won the Albert Londres Prize in 2005 for her reporting on Chechnya and the Beslan school hostage crisis. She was appointed Director and Executive Editor of Le Monde on 1 March 2013.