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thumb|Mayte Carrasco during an interview.

Mayte Carrasco (Terrasa, Catalonia, Spain, 1974) is a freelance journalist specialized in international topics. She has worked for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the news agency EFE and the Spanish TV channel Telecinco. She has reported wars in Caucasus, Central Asia and Afaganistan, between others.

Formation
Mayte Carrasco is licensed in Communication Sciences by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1992-1997). Between 1995 and 1996 she travelled to Grenoble (France) to complement her formation in the Stendhal University.

Just after getting her degree, in 1997, she travelled to the United Kingdom to study a master on International Security Studies (specialization in terrorism and conflict resolving). In 2003 she got a master specialization in Philosophy for Peace in Jaume I University (Castellón, Spain) in an UNESCO cathedra.

In 2009 Mayte Carrasco accomplished a course in survival in conflict zones with a grant from Reuters. She can speak Spanish, French, English and Catalan, and a bit of Russian.

Career
She started her professional career as correspondent in Granada (Spain) for EFE in 1994. Between 2000 and 2002 she was correspondent for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo in Almería (Spain).

In all this time (1994-2004) she worked as reporter for Telecinco´s newsreel in Barcelona and Almería (Spain), where she covered topics related to inmigration from the north of Morocco.

From 2004 to 2007, she went to further her career in France, at the first year, she worked as bilingual journalist in the headquarters of Euronews in Lyon. In the following two years, she worked in Paris as the correspondent in Informativos Telecinco and Punto Radio where she reported the presidential elections legislative of Sarkozy, Cannes Film Festival, Obama’s head of state visit on the 60th anniversary of Normandy landings, and directed the reports on ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna).

Her role as a war correspondent took in the stage from 2008 when she worked for Informativos Telecinco in Moscow, Russia. She reported the conflicts in Afghanistan with the Spanish troops in Herat and carried interviews with the Taliban leaders. In August 2008, she went to coverage the Georgia War.

Mayte Carrasco also contributed as a media scholar. She was a research collaborator for IECAH (Institute for Conflict Studies and Action Humanitarian) ; a specialist in international security studies, terrorism and conflict resolution in University of Reading; a collaborator in Publicaciones en Papeles del Este(Complutense University in Madrid) and Journal of IECAH; a speaker in conferences(civil-military coordination in violent scenarios, women in area of conflict, war correspondents); a participator in the projects(media’s role in the peacebuilding) in the Spanish Ministry of Defense.

From 2009 to now, she worked as a professor on Journalism and a freelance journalist who is in active coverage of the conflicts in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.

Links
 Article of Mayte Carrasco:Real Journalism Now: the media after Spain's revolution.(13 June 2011)

 Report of Mayte Carrasco in Herat, Afghanistan in August 2009