John Kampfner

John Kampfner

John Kampfner is a British journalist who was editor of the weekly political magazine the "New Statesman" between 2005 and 2008. During that time he took the magazine's circulation to a 30-year high, winning a string of awards including Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.

He was educated at Westminster School, a boys' independent school in London and at the University of Oxford. He was a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Berlin for nearly a decade. Subsequently he became a political correspondent and commentator for the "Financial Times" and the BBC, and the political editor of the "New Statesman" before he became editor.

He became Chief Executive of Index on Censorship in 2008. He is also Chair of Turner Contemporary, the largest visual arts project in the south-east of England outside London.

As an author his works include "Inside Yeltsin's Russia: Corruption, Conflict, Capitalism", a biography of former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, and a study of Tony Blair's interventionist foreign policy "Blair's Wars". He is currently writing a book on the rise of authoritarian capitalism around the world.

Additionally, Kampfner has contributed several BBC documentaries, his two-part series on the Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, "The Dirty War", won him Journalist of the Year and Film of the Year from the Foreign Press Association in 2002.

John Kampfner is married to the BBC journalist Lucy Ash, they have two children and live in London.

References

* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=sl1358593 KAMPFNER, John] International Who's Who. accessed September 4, 2006.


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