Caitriona Palmer

Caitriona Palmer (born 1972) is an Irish journalist, author, human rights investigator and advocate, born and raised in County Dublin, Ireland.

Education
Palmer studied at University College Dublin, where she received a bachelor's degree in history and politics in 1993.

In 1995, she won a Fulbright Scholarship to complete her master's at Boston College.

In 2021, Palmer was awarded the UCD Alumni Award in Social Sciences.

Career
From 2002 to 2004, Palmer was the Iran correspondent for The Irish Times based in Tehran.

Palmer is the author of two books, the memoir, An Affair With My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love (Penguin, 2016) and Climate Justice (Bloomsbury, 2018), co-written with former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson