Angelina Jolie has a new job

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20th Jun 2019

Angelina Jolie is set to add magazine editor to a resume that already reads actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian, as  announces that the 44-year-old Academy Award-winner has joined the ranks of the publication as it’s newest contributing editor

Edward Felsenthal, the editor-in-chief and CEO of , announced the news today, as the first of Jolie’s monthly stories, titled Angelina Jolie: What We Owe Refugees, was published online. 

The piece, which will also be published in the magazine’s July issue, touched on the “need to focus on long-term peace based on justice, rights and accountability to enable refugees to return home”, in honour of World Refugee Day on June 20. 

“The rate of displacement last year was equivalent to 37,000 people being forced from their homes every single day,” she wrote. “Imagine trying to organize a response to that level of desperation without the funds necessary to help even half of those people.”

According to Felsenthal, the actress, who also happens to be the Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, will utilise her 18 years of experience working for the UN Refugee Agency to cover topics that will predominantly focus on displacement, conflict, and human rights. 

It’s interesting to note that this isn’t Jolie’s first time contributing to the publication. In April, the actress and activist penned an essay titled Angelina Jolie: Why Women Are the Key to Lasting Peace in Afghanistan, where she highlighted the importance of a peace that is built on human rights.

The Oscar-winning star, who has been crowned one of the most admired women and highest paid actresses on multiple occasions, is also a proud mother of six children, and an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. 

On top of that, in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy, reports that the humanitarian has carried out over 60 field missions to refugees located everywhere from Colombia to Bangladesh, making her the perfect candidate to cover topics focused on human rights.