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John Kampfner was born on 27 December, 1962 in Singapore, is a British journalist. Discover John Kampfner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 61 years old?
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Author, broadcaster and commentator |
| Age |
61 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
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27 December 1962 |
| Birthday |
27 December |
| Birthplace |
Singapore |
| Nationality |
Singapore
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He is a member of famous Journalist with the age 61 years old group.
John Kampfner Height, Weight & Measurements
At 61 years old, John Kampfner height not available right now. We will update John Kampfner's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is John Kampfner's Wife?
His wife is Lucy Ash (m. 1992)
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| Wife |
Lucy Ash (m. 1992) |
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2 |
John Kampfner Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is John Kampfner worth at the age of 61 years old? John Kampfner’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from Singapore. We have estimated John Kampfner's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
| Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
| Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Not Available |
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Not Available |
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Journalist |
John Kampfner Social Network
Timeline
John Kampfner is a British author, broadcaster and commentator.
His seventh book, In Search of Berlin, The Story of a Reinvented City, was published in October 2023.
In 1992, Kampfner married BBC journalist Lucy Ash.
The couple have two daughters and live in London.
These include: Inside Yeltsin's Russia: Corruption, Conflict, Capitalism (1994), an account of the early years of post-Communism; a 1998 biography of former Labour Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, and a study of Tony Blair's interventionist foreign policy Blair's Wars (2003), which gave one of the first authoritative accounts of the Iraq war and used in subsequent Whitehall enquiries, as well as school and university texts.
He went on to become chief political correspondent at the Financial Times (1995-1998) and political commentator for the BBC's Today radio programme and political correspondent on Newsnight (1998-2000).
The Rich, a 2000-year history, from slaves to super-yachts, is a historical comparison between contemporary oligarchs and those down the ages.
In 2002 Kampfner won the Foreign Press Association awards for Film of the Year and Journalist of the Year for The Ugly War, a two-part BBC film on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
His film War Spin, exposing the propaganda behind the rescue of Jessica Lynch, received considerable publicity in the US and UK.
Kampfner was editor of the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008.
He was the British Society of Magazine Editors Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.
He is currently a regular contributor to The Guardian and Der Spiegel.
Kampfner is also a regular programme maker for the BBC.
His most recent documentary was about Slovakia ahead of that country's September 2023 elections.
He was named one of the 1000 most influential Londoners in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 survey in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
In 2008 he was Founder Chair of Turner Contemporary, an art gallery in Margate designed by architect Sir David Chipperfield which has been seen as a model of arts-based regeneration.
During his time, he welcomed the Queen and the Duchess of Cambridge on visits.
He was Chief Executive of the freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship between 2008 and 2012.
His book Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money And Lost Our Liberty (2009) is an analysis of the seeming abandonment of liberty in the names of democracy and capitalism.
The book was shortlisted for the Orwell Book prize in April 2010.
From 2012 to 2014, he was an external consultant for Google on freedom of expression and culture.
Kampfner was chair of the Clore Social Leadership Programme between 2014 and 2018, a charity which nurtures leaders in the charity sectors.
He was also a member of the Council of King's College London for three years.
In 2014, he established the Creative Industries Federation, a national organisation to represent the arts, creative industries and cultural education.
In December 2015 he stepped down after seven and a half years.
Since 2019, he has been a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a defence and security think tank.
In 2022-2023 he was Executive Director of the UK in the World Programme at Chatham House.
In 2022-2023 he was Chair of the Young Königswinter conference, which brings young people together from Germany and the UK.
Kampfner was born in Singapore to a Jewish father from Bratislava and a Protestant mother from Chatham-Kent.
He was educated at Westminster School.
He went to The Queen's College, Oxford, where he received a BA degree in Modern History and Russian.
Kampfner began his career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Moscow and Bonn.
He moved to The Daily Telegraph, first in East Berlin where he reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany, and then as Bureau Chief in Moscow at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
In 2019 he was appointed Chair of the House of Illustration, subsequently renamed the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration.
In the same year, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Bath Spa University for services to arts education and the creative industries.
Kampfner has written seven books.
His sixth book Why The Germans Do It Better, Notes From A Grown-Up Country, was published by Atlantic in August 2020.
A Sunday Times bestseller for many weeks in both hardback and paperback, the book received positive reviews and coverage in The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, New Statesman, TLS and Literary Review. It was chosen as one of the books of the year in 2020 and 2021 in a number of newspapers.
His latest book, In Search of Berlin, The Story of a Reinvented City, received positive reviews and coverage in its first week from The Times, Der Spiegel, the FT and the Literary Review.
