Award winning journalist Sam Kiley has been a reporter for 20 years based in London, Los Angeles, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Jerusalem, London and Suffolk
Educated at Oxford University he read politics, philosophy and economics. He was president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and played cricket for the university second eleven. He studied mime and commedia del arte under Neil Bartlett, director at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Commissioned into the Ghurkhas before university he resigned from the army half way through his degree.
He joined The Times in 1987 where he was an education reporter. Three years later he joined The Sunday Times as the West Coast (USA) correspondent. He moved on to Nairobi as The Times Africa Correspondent a year later. His coverage of Somalia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone won widespread acclaim.
In 1996 he won the Granada Foreign Correspondent of the Year award for his coverage of the fall of Mobutu’s Zaire and, promoted to Africa Bureau Chief, moved to Johannesburg.
In 1999 he was dispatched to Jerusalem where he served The Times as Middle East Bureau Chief for two years and then joined the Evening Standard as the chief foreign correspondent based in London - covering mainly the wars in Afghanistan and the continuing intifada in the Palestinian territories.
Breaking into television with Channel Four’s flagship current affairs series Dispatches he made “Truth and Lies in Baghdad” in 2002 and joined the channel full time the following year making programmes all over the world for Dispatches and Unreported World.
In 2005 he was “poached” by Sky One for whom he made two series: “USA Unsolved with Sam Kiley” and “Guns for Hire” – an investigation into modern mercenaries in the Congo and Afghanistan.
In November 2006 He produced a BBC2 observational documentary in Afghanistan, The General's War, where he has had exclusive and unprecedented access to British Nato general David Richards and then returned to Unreported World on Channel Four making films in Cape Town, the Congo, the Palestinian Territories, Russia and Kosovo.
In the summer of 2008 he became the only journalist to cover a full operational tour in Afghanistan when he joined 16 Air Assault Brigade on its six month tour of Helman. "Desperate Glory" is the product of those six months.
A father of two he lives in the countryside of East Anglia. He is a contributor to The Mail on Sunday, The Observer, and The Times, the New Statesman, The Sunday Times, and The Spectator.
He is a qualified paraglider pilot and a keen horse rider. Descended from two generations of conservationists he is an expert on African wildlife and ecology. A keen shot, he feeds his family largely from wild meat; and is very excited in the autumn when wild mushroom hunting tends to take priority over earning a living.
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