Caroline Lees has worked as a reporter and editor on national newspapers for more than 30 years, including time as the South Asia correspondent for the Sunday Times. She has also reported from Africa, where she covered the 1994 end of apartheid elections from Johannesburg. Her reporting career includes working as the Arts Correspondent of the Sunday Times in London, Foreign Editor of the Sunday Express, Assistant Editor of The Scotsman, and Editor of Australia’s Dolly Magazine for teenage girls. More recently, Caroline has worked as a research officer at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) at the University of Oxford, supervising research projects for journalists from all over the world. She was managing editor of the European Journalism Observatory, based at the RISJ, and also led communications for the Institute. She has written about China for Marie Claire magazine; about Eritrea for The Economist and about the Taliban for The Spectator. She has judged the Rory Peck Awards and the One World Media Awards, and written for Index on Censorship.