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Christine Ockrent is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.

Daughter of Belgian diplomat Charles Ockrent, she was born in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1965. She worked for the American television and collaborate to "60 Minutes", the CBS News Magazine. Back in France, she worked on Europe 1, a national radio station where she was in charge of morning news. In 1981, she became the first female anchor of the 8PM news on the Antenne 2 television channel. Afterwards, she worked for TF1. By the end of her career, she had returned back to France 2 as anchor of the evening news and then for France 3 since 1990 where she was the host of different news magazines.

She was chief of the L'Express editorial office.

She is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.

In 2002, Ockrent wrote the preface to Ma guerre à L’indifference (English: My war against indifference), a book by United Nations official Jean-Sélim Kanaan.