John Kampfner

John Kampfner was Editor of the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008. He was the British Society of Magazine Editors' Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.

John Kampfner’s books include the critically acclaimed Blair's Wars and Freedom for Sale. He is a regular pundit and presenter for all channels on politics and foreign affairs. In 2002 he won the Foreign Press Association award for Film of the Year and Journalist of the Year for his piece The Ugly War, about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Wall and the unification of Germany, and then in Moscow during the collapse of Soviet Communism. On returning to the UK in the mid-1990s, he became Chief Political Correspondent at the Financial Times and commentator for the BBC's Today programme. From 2002 to 2005, John was the New Statesman’s Political Editor.

In 2008 John was appointed Chief Executive of Index on Censorship, one of the world's leading organisations that monitors abuses of freedom of expression. He lives with his wife and two daughters in London.