Cecilia Ferrara is a freelance journalist, a member of IRPI (Investigative Reporting Project Italy) and contributor to Radio Bullets.

She graduated in European Contemporary History at the University of Florence. From 2000, she working as a journalist in the communitarian radio station Novaradio, in Florence. She gained interest in the Balkans and became an expert in Balkan politics, society and organised crime, living – between 2007 and 2010 – in Sarajevo and Belgrade. In that period she freelanced for several Italian and international media such as Il Venerdì (La Repubblica), Osservatorio Balcani and Caucaso, Left, Avvenimenti, Europa, Transition on line, Le Jeudì, Narcomafie, Avvenire, Carta, Peacereporter and Rinascita. 

In 2011 she co-authored the book Narconomics on the international traffic of cocaine and heroine. At the moment she works on transnational investigative journalism projects.