Christina Lamb

Author and Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times

Christina Lamb started reporting on Afghanistan in 1987 when she was just 21, and the country was still occupied by Russian troops. She studied PPE at the University of Oxford, and began her journalistic career as an intern at the Financial Times, where she continued writing before spending a year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She is currently the Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Sunday Times.

A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Lamb is also the author of the best-selling book The Africa House (1999), as well as The Sewing Circles of Heart: My Afghan Years (2002) and Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands (2008). She has twice won Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the British Press Awards, and was recently named winner of the Prix Bayeux Calvados - one of the world's most prestigious prizes for war correspondents, for her reporting from Afghanistan.