Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Journalist and author

Born in Uganda, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown graduated from Makerere University before completing an MPhil in Literature at the University of Oxford. She worked as a teacher for several years before moving into journalism. From early jobs writing for the New Statesman and the Guardian, she now has a regular column in the Independent and the Evening Standard. In 2002 she won the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism.

Along with frequent broadcasts on radio and television, Alibhai-Brown has written a number of books including Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining the New Britain (2000) and No Place Like Home (1995). Between 1996 and 2001 she was a member of the Institute for Public Policy Research, and is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Foreign Policy Centre.