Joyce M. Davis
President & CEO
World Affairs Council of Harrisburg
Joyce M. Davis is a veteran journalist who has lived and worked around the globe for some of the nation’s most respected news organizations. She is Outreach & Opinion Editor for PennLive and The Patriot-News, the major news organization in Pennsylvania’s capital, and regularly writes commentators for CNN’s opinion page.
Davis spent five years in Prague, Czech Republic, working as Associate Director of Broadcasting for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, supervising broadcast services to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. She has worked as a foreign correspondent and editor for National Public Radio and the former Knight Ridder newspapers and is the author of two books on international affairs: “Between Jihad and Salaam: Profiles in Islam” and “Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East.”
She has been awarded four honorary doctors in international affairs and the humanities and is considered an expert on Islamic movements and the Middle East, having covered the region for more than two decades.
For Joyce, World Affairs Councils matter because Americans need to better understand the world.
