Johann Hari

Award-winning journalist

Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist currently working as a columnist for the Independent and for the US news site The Huffington Post. He has reported from all around the world; Iraq, the Middle East, Venezuela and the Democratic Republic of Congo, covering issues for a wide range of newspapers including the New York Times, Le Monde and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has interviewed many of the world’s important leaders and prominent thinkers ranging from the Dalai Lama and Tony Blair to Hugo Chavez and Abu Hamza, and makes regular appearances as a commentator on CNN, NBC and the BBC. He graduated from King’s College, Cambridge with a double First in Social and Political Sciences in 2001, beginning his career as a staff reporter for the New Statesman in the same year, and released his first book God Save the Queen? in 2003. He is a Senior Editor for Attitude, Britain’s bestselling gay magazine, and has won numerous awards for journalism, most notably becoming the youngest winner of the George Orwell Prize in 2008.