Lindsey Hilsum

Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor of Channel 4 News. She is amongst Britain's leading foreign correspondents, having reported from every continent over 20 years.

She has been a Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year and Specialist Journalist of the Year. Her reporting has also won an Emmy, the James Cameron award, the Charles Wheeler Award and prizes from Amnesty and the One World Broadcasting Trust.

From 2006 – 2008, she headed the Channel 4 News China Bureau, based in Beijing. She covered the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad, and the 1999 NATO attacks on Serbia from Belgrade. She was embedded with a frontline marine unit during the 2004 US assault on Falluja. Previously, she specialised in Africa, spending extended periods of time in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide started.

Lindsey began her career as an aid worker, first with Oxfam in Latin America and then with UNICEF in East Africa. She lived in Kenya for seven years, primarily as a reporter for the BBC and the Guardian. She has contributed to the literary magazine Granta, and writes regularly for the Observer and the Sunday Times. Her book Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution will be published by Faber in the UK in April, and by Penguin Press in the USA in May.

She is a stimulating public speaker, and a skilled chair of conferences, seminars and panel discussions. She speaks Spanish and French. 

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CONFERENCES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND SEMINARS CHAIRED
Intelligence Squared – "Africa Should not look to China"
Yougov Cambridge Forum - Arab Spring: The Promise and Perils of Social Media Beyond the West 
Frontline Club – The Arab Spring 
Frontline Club – The danger to Iranian film-makers
Conservative Party Spring Conference – Save the Children panel on Afghanistan
SOAS – Witness Seminar on the BBC and the Iranian Revolution 
German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum – High level panel on the Middle East 
German Marshall Fund Istanbul Forum – High level panel on Turkey and Iran 
Amnesty International – Discussion on Women Reporting from the Frontline 
Foreign Policy Centre - Conference on China in Africa

TALKS
Indiana State University – On Being a War Correspondent
Oxford Development Conference – Covering Developing Countries for British TV
London School of Economics – Reporting Rwanda
Clare College Cambridge – Who'd Be a Foreign Correspondent?
Frontline Club – Reporting the 2009 Iranian Elections and their aftermath
Edinburgh University – Reporting China
Oxford Literary Festival – Orwell Prize panel on China in Africa