John Kampfner

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John Kampfner is a British journalist who has been editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman since 2005. He was educated at Westminster School, a boys' independent school in London and at the University of Oxford. He was a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Berlin for nearly a decade. Subsequently he became a political correspondent and commentator for the Financial Times and the BBC, and the political editor of the New Statesman which he now edits.

As an author his works include Inside Yeltsins Russia: Corruption, Conflict, Capitalism, a biography of former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, and a study of Tony Blair's interventionist foreign policy Blair's Wars.

Additionally, Kampfner has contributed several documentaries to the BBC, his two-part series on the Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, The Dirty War, won him Journalist of the Year and Film of the Year from the Foreign Press Association in 2002.