Career
He worked on The Guardian newspaper for nearly 25 years, reporting on a wide range of political and sporting events including a stint as Washington correspondent beginning on 9/11. He now writes a column in the Financial Times. Engel edited the 1993–2000 and 2004–2007 editions of Wisden Cricketers" Almanack, with a short break when he worked in the United States. He has been a strong critic of the International Cricket Council, international cricket"s ruling body.
Engel was the News International Visiting Professor of Media at the University of Oxford for 2011.
Engel is an alumnus of Carmel College, Oxfordshire, and Manchester University. The proceeds of a book he wrote, Extracts from the Red Notebooks (Macmillan), are donated to this fund.
His latest book, Engel"s England, was published in 2014.