Background
Her father is professor Cyril Hilsum, a physicist best known for research that helped form the basis of modern liquid crystal display technology.
Her father is professor Cyril Hilsum, a physicist best known for research that helped form the basis of modern liquid crystal display technology.
She attended Worcester Grammar School for Girls and the University of Exeter where she graduated with a degree in French and Spanish, which she is fluent in.
She is the International Editor for Channel 4 News, and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The New Statesman, and Granta. Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News" International Editor. She has covered the major conflicts of the past two decades, including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In 2011 she reported the uprisings in Egypt and Bahrain, as well as Libya.
She has also reported extensively from Iran and Zimbabwe, and was Channel 4 News China Correspondent from 2006 to 2008. During the 2004 United States assault on Falluja, she was embedded with a frontline marine unit, and in 1994, she was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide started.
Before becoming a journalist, she was an aid worker, first in Latin America and then in Africa. Her first book, Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution was published by Faber in the United Kingdom in April 2012, and by Penguin Press in the United States of America in May 2012, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (2012).