David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch was born in 1954 and educated in North London.

He attended Balliol College in Oxford and Manchester University. He served two years as President of the National Union of Students.

He has worked as a producer at LWT and as an editor at the BBC including the first editorship of On The Record.

David has written for The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer and is now a columnist for The Times. In 1998 he won the What The Papers Say award for a writer about broadcasting, in 2000 the Orwell prize for journalism and in 2003 the What The Papers Say Columnist of the Year award.

His broadcast career has included presenting Newsnight, Pick of the Week and Sunday Supplement as well as presenting programmes for Channels 4 and 5 and BBC 1, 2 and 4.

His first book Paddling to Jerusalem, was published in September 2000. His second, Voodoo Histories: the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History, was published in May 2009.

He now lives in Hampstead with his family and is a patron of the Family Planning Association.