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John Simpson is the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, the senior member of a team of London-based foreign and specialist correspondents. In a BBC career spanning more than 40 years, John has earned a reputation as one of the world’s most experienced and authoritative journalists.

He has covered many of the biggest stories of recent times including the Iranian revolution against the Shah, the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and Russia, the Gulf Wars and the wars in Bosnia, the rise and then subsequent overthrow of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

John has reported from more than 100 countries across the globe, from 30 war zones and has interviewed numerous controversial world leaders including Sadam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gadhaffi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Robert Mugabe and the Emperor Bokassa.

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