Lindsey Hilsum

Channel 4 News' International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, has covered the major conflicts of the past two decades, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2011 she reported the uprisings in Egypt and Bahrain, as well as Libya. She has also reported extensively from Iran and Zimbabwe, and was Channel 4 News China Correspondent from 2006 to 2008. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide started. She has been Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year, and won the Charles Wheeler Award and the James Cameron Award as well as recognition from the One World Media and Amnesty International. In her first book, Sandstorm, she looks at the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi,  one of the twenty-first century's defining moments, and contemplates the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people from the unique perspective of being an eye-witness to that revolution. She traces the history of the strange Libyan regime from its beginnings to its paranoid, corrupt final state, symbolized by the massacre of prisoners at Abu Salim prison.