John Simpson

About

John Simpson is known as a BBC World Affairs Editor, Journalist and Author, with experience spanning media, storytelling, current affairs and culture. John Simpson, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, is a household name and one of the most distinguished foreign correspondents of our age. Recognised as the “David Attenborough” of news, John is a multi-award winning, veteran news broadcaster (and accomplished author) who has covered almost every major event of the world from the 1960s to the present day. His seminal reports on the big moments of recent history make up an illustrious list including the Iranian Revolution, the First and Second Gulf Wars, the Fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the Genocide in Rwanda, the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.