Andrew Gilligan

Journalist

Andrew Gilligan is a journalist at the Evening Standard. Educated at Cambridge University he began his career at the Cambridge Evening News, before becoming a freelance journalist. He subsequently worked on the Sunday Telegraph's Foreign News desk, and also as the paper's defence correspondent.

Gilligan joined the Today programme in 1999, during which time he broke a number of important stories, most notably his report on the 2003 September Dossier, the government report about supposed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Gilligan resigned from the BBC after the publication of the Hutton Inquiry, which examined the circumstances surrounding the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly (Gilligan's source for his report on the September Dossier).

After leaving the BBC, Gilligan joined the Evening Standard. Gilligan also presents for Channel 4's Dispatches. He was named as the British Press Awards' Journalist of the Year in 2008, and was a runner-up for the Paul Foot award in the same year.