Isabel Hilton
Editor
ChinaDialogue.net

Isabel Hilton is the editor of www.openDemocracy.net. She is a journalist, broadcaster, writer and commentator and has worked for and contributed to a wide range of international media, including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Independent, The Sunday Times, the Economist, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta and the BBC. She has reported extensively from Latin America, South Asia, China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Isabel Hilton wrote The Search For The Panchen Lama (2000) and has co-authored other books, including The Falklands War (1982). She has reported several documentaries for the BBC, such as Petra and The General, an investigation of the life and death of Petra Kelly (1994). An expert on Chinese affairs, Isabel Hilton holds a degree in Chinese from the University of Edinburgh and also studied at the Peking Language Institute and Fudan University in Shanghai. After working for The Sunday Times covering home and foreign affairs she joined The Independent in 1986 as Latin America editor. She was appointed European affairs editor and chief feature writer before leaving the newspaper in 1995. Isabel Hilton presented BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight from 1995 until 1998, then joined Radio 3's Night Waves, which she still presents.

Isabel Hilton lectures extensively on foreign affairs on a wide variety of platforms. She is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the British Association of China Scholars and has served on the advisory committee of the Latin America Bureau. In 2003, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Bradford University in recognition of her contribution to international understanding.