John Kampfner

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John Kampfner is a British journalist who was editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman between 2005 and 2008. 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 before he became editor.

As an author his works include Inside Yeltsin's 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 BBC documentaries, 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. He is a keen gardener and was once highly commended at the Chelsea Flower Show.

John Kampfner is married to the journalist Lucy Ash, they have two children and live in London.