1. John Kampfner is a member of the Board of the Deutsch-Britische Gesellschaft.
14 Facts About John Kampfner
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John Kampfner was born in Singapore to a Jewish father from Bratislava and a Protestant mother from Chatham-Kent.
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John Kampfner went to The Queen's College, Oxford, where he received a BA degree in Modern History and Russian.
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John Kampfner 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.
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John Kampfner went on to become chief political correspondent at the Financial Times and political commentator for the BBC's Today radio programme and political correspondent on Newsnight.
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John Kampfner was editor of the New Statesman from 2005 to 2008.
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John Kampfner was the British Society of Magazine Editors Current Affairs Editor of the Year in 2006.
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John Kampfner is currently a regular contributor to politico, Foreign Policy and The Guardian.
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John Kampfner writes columns for the FT, New European, Independent, Der Spiegel, and Die Zeit.
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John Kampfner was named one of the 1000 most influential Londoners in the Evening Standard Progress 1000 survey in 2015,2016 and 2017.
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John Kampfner was chair of the Clore Social Leadership Programme between 2014 and 2018, a charity which nurtures leaders in the charity sectors.
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John Kampfner was a member of the Council of King's College London for three years.
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John Kampfner was Chief Executive of the freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship between 2008 and 2012.
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John Kampfner's book Freedom For Sale: How We Made Money And Lost Our Liberty is an analysis of the seeming abandonment of liberty in the names of democracy and capitalism.