He is esteemed for his unique capacity to contextualise current affairs. Tim has been shot with bird pellet in Cairo, bruised by the police in Tehran, arrested by Serbian intelligence, detained in Damascus, declared persona non grata in Croatia, hit over the head with a plank of wood in London, bombed by the RAF in Belgrade, and tear-gassed all over the world. His 2004 coverage of the Iraq war, and his 2007 report on the Mujahadeen won him a finalist position in the Royal Television Society’s News Event category. In recent years, he has covered the conflicts in Iraq, Gaza, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. His book Shadowplay: The Overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, was a bestseller in former Yugoslavia and continues to be one of the most highly regarded accounts of that period. In 1999, Tim was one of the few western journalists to remain in Belgrade, reporting on the Kosovo crisis despite the NATO bombing raids.
His latest book is The Future of Geography about Astropolitics. His fourth book, Prisoners of Geography, became an iconic New York Times, and Sunday Times bestseller with over two million copies sold worldwide. Renowned for his ability to identify the causes underlying world events, he has reported from over thirty countries including 12 wars and conflict zones and has published six books on international relations. Britain’s best selling author on international affairs, Tim Marshall is the former Diplomatic Editor and Foreign Correspondent for Sky News.
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