18 Facts About Ed Vulliamy

Edward Sebastian Vulliamy was born on 1 August 1954 and is a British journalist and writer.

Ed Vulliamy was educated at the independent University College School and at Hertford College, Oxford, where he won an Open Scholarship, wrote a thesis on the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and graduated in Politics and Philosophy.

Ed Vulliamy remained in Bosnia for the bulk of the remainder of the war, covering ethnic cleansing from the inside, and the siege of Sarajevo.

Ed Vulliamy testified for the prosecution in ten trials at the ICTY, including those of Bosnian Serb leaders Dr Radovan Karadzic and General Ratko Mladic.

In 1991, Ed Vulliamy covered the aftermath of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, in Iraq, revealing atrocities by Saddam Hussein's troops in the Shiite South.

Ed Vulliamy covered US politics, society, culture and sports across the union, the transition from the presidency of Bill Clinton to George W Bush.

Ed Vulliamy covered the lead-up to the invasion of, and war in, Iraq from 2002 onwards.

Ed Vulliamy clashed with his newspaper, The Observer, over its support for the invasion, often unable to place his stories about false intelligence and non-existence of weapons of mass destruction in the paper.

Ed Vulliamy reported from Iraq several times from early 2003 to 2005, on civilian casualties of the invasion, and on the subsequent insurgency.

From 2003 onwards, Ed Vulliamy has worked along the US-Mexican border, reporting on organised crime, narco-traffic, cartel wars, security and migration.

Ed Vulliamy was among the first reporters to reveal the laundering of proceeds of narco-traffic by mainstream high-street banks on a massive scale.

Ed Vulliamy badly broke his leg in 2013, and wrote a detailed article from the patient's viewpoint about his prolonged treatment with the Ilizarov apparatus, an external frame that stretches the leg.

In 2013, Ed Vulliamy wrote liner notes for a CD box set of solo records by Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and in 2017, contributed an essay to the book which accompanied the 50th anniversary edition, remixed by George Martin's son Giles, of The Beatles 'Sgt.

In 2019, Ed Vulliamy was by played the actor Rhys Ifans in Gavin Hood's acclaimed Hollywood film Official Secrets about the case of Katharine Gun, a GCHQ agent who blew the whistle on illegal bugging of UN diplomats during the lead-up to the Iraq invasion of 2003, with Keira Knightley in the lead role.

In 2020, Ed Vulliamy was made an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths' College, University of London.

Ed Vulliamy is currently working in Ukraine, on resistance - military, musical and cultural - to the Russian invasion.

Ed Vulliamy was awarded several major prizes in British journalism for his coverage of the war in Bosnia and work on organised crime.

Ed Vulliamy has been a vegetarian since the age of eight after he questioned what happens to sheep.