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Christina Lamb is one of Britain’s leading foreign correspondents and a bestselling author. She has reported from most of the world’s hotspots starting with Afghanistan after an unexpected wedding invitation led her to Karachi in 1987 when she was just 22. She moved to Peshawar to cover the mujaheddin fighting the Soviet Union and within two years she had been named Young Journalist of the Year. Since then she has won 15 major awards including five times being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year and Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux. She was made an OBE by the Queen in 2013 and is an honorary fellow of University College, Oxford.
Currently Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times of London, her postings have included South Africa, Pakistan, Brazil and Washington, and she is particularly known for her writing highlighting how war affects women. She has written nine books including the bestselling The Africa House and I Am Malala, as well as Farewell Kabul and The Girl from Aleppo. Her latest book is Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women (March 2020).
Katrin Bennhold is a senior writer on the international desk. She was formerly Berlin bureau chief for The Times. A native German who spent most of her life abroad, Ms. Bennhold has been particularly interested in exploring the rise of the far right. In 2021, she hosted “Day X,” an audio series on far-right infiltration of Germany’s security services that built on an award-winning print series and a 2019 podcast documentary on nationalism and populism in Europe, “The Battle for Europe.”