Robin Knight

Robin Knight was born in 1943 and educated at the Nautical College Pangbourne in England, Dublin University in Ireland and Stanford University in California, USA.

In 1968 he joined the American newsmagazine US News & World Report. For the next 28 years he worked as a foreign correspondent for the magazine around the world, basing in London, Moscow, Johannesburg, Rome and Washington DC. From 1985-96 he was the magazine's Senior European Editor and in this capacity covered the collapse of communism and the wars in the Balkans.

He was fired by US News in 1996 when the magazine closed its foreign bureaux. He worked as a Contributing Editor with Time magazine 1997-2003 and was also Editorial Writer at BP plc 1997-2003.

From 2003 he ran his own corporate communications company Knightwrite Ltd until 2010. Since then, he has written a number of books including a memoir "A Road Less Travelled" (2011), a centenary history of Pangbourne College (2016), and "The Extraordinary Life of Mike Cumberlege SOE" (2018). In 2021 Unicorn Publishing Group will publish his latest book "Leaders" - profiles in bravery and courage 1917-2020.

Robin writes obituaries and book reviews and has won a number of international journalism awards. He is a member of The Pilgrims, an Honorary Life Member of the Association of American Correspondents in London (AACL), a Life member of the MCC and a former Governor of Pangbourne College and chairman and president of the Old Pangbournian Society.