For John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, life has encompassed being shelled in Afghanistan, attacked with poisonous gas in the Gulf, dodging bullets in Tiananmen Square, and now, facing RTS Veterans at lunch. In a BBC career spanning more than 40 Years he has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most experienced and respected journalists. He has reported from more than 100 countries, from 30 war zones, and has interviewed many controversial world leaders, the good and the bad, among them Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi, Osama bin Laden, Ayatollah Khomeini, Robert Mugabe, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. John was appointed World Affairs Editor in 1988 following periods as diplomatic editor and the BBC correspondent in South Africa, Brussels and Dublin. He currently presents a current and political affairs programme on BBC World and BBC News 24 called Simpson’s World, seen in 200 countries. Each edition has an audience that has been estimated at 151 million viewers. From 1990-6 John was associate editor of The Spectator. His recent books include an autobiographical trilogy, Strange Places, Questionable People (1998), A Mad World, My Masters, (2000) and News from No Man’s Land (2002), The Wars against Saddam (2003) became a best-seller and is now available in paperback. John’s most recent book Unreliable Source was published earlier this year. John was appointed a CBE in 1991 and his journalism has won him many awards including three BAFTA Golden Nymph Awards and an International Emmy Award, and, something his lunch audience will appreciate, he is one of only two people to have been twice named Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year (in1991 and 2000).

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John Simpson CBE

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