11 Facts About Chris McGreal

Chris McGreal is the author of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts published by Public Affairs in the US and Guardian Faber in the UK.

Chris McGreal has won awards for his coverage of Africa, Israel and the USAformer merchant seaman, he began his career in journalism in 1982 with BBC local radio.

Chris McGreal worked as a producer at the BBC World Service in London before moving to Venezuela in 1985 as a reporter on the English-language Daily Journal in Caracas and as a correspondent for the BBC.

In 1987 Chris McGreal moved to Mexico City for the BBC and, later, The Independent.

Chris McGreal joined The Guardian in 1992 and remained based in Johannesburg to report on the transition from apartheid as well travelling widely in Africa to cover the Angolan Civil War, the Rwandan genocide, the invasion of Zaire and fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, and military rule in Nigeria.

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Chris McGreal won the 1995 Amnesty International national print award for an article about the organisers of the Rwandan genocide.

Chris McGreal was awarded the 2002 James Cameron Prize for his coverage of Africa and "work as a journalist that has combined moral vision and professional integrity".

Chris McGreal was appointed The Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent in 2002 at the height of the second Palestinian uprising.

Chris McGreal made repeated undercover trips to Zimbabwe to report on the political violence of President Robert Mugabe's regime.

Chris McGreal was runner up in the 2006 British Media Award by the Foreign Press Association in London for his Zimbabwe coverage.

Chris McGreal has continued to report from the Middle East at times, including the Egyptian and Libyan revolutions in 2011.