Former BBC Foreign Correspondent and International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media

William Horsley is a former long-serving BBC foreign correspondent; International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield; Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism at City University London; and Co-Director of the Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law, a policy and advocacy project of both universities.

He writes widely on international affairs and media issues, and works to safeguard freedom of expression and journalists’ professional rights through the Council of Europe, the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Association of European Journalists, of which he is the UK Chairman and international media freedom representative.