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Simon Denyer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author with more than 25 years’ experience as a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and Reuters.
He is author of "Rogue Elephant: Harnessing the Power of India's Unruly Democracy,", published by Bloomsbury in 2014, and the co-editor of “Foreign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia” published by Penguin India.
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 as part of a Washington Post team covering the global impact of climate change, with his story focused on vast changes in the heart of the Pacific affecting sea ice and the salmon catch off northern Japan.
In 2016, he won the Overseas Press Club of America award for a series of stories on China’s vast network of digital censorship and surveillance, and a National Headliners Award for coverage of the human and environment cost of Chinese rule in Tibet. He also a National Headliners Award in 2016 for coverage of Japan’s whaling and dolphin-hunting industry.
He has taught courses in media and politics at two leading universities in Japan, and has considerable public speaking experience. He has also made frequent TV and radio appearances, including on BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC and Sky News, as well as India's leading cable news channels. He also served as president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia from 2011-2013.
He has reported from more than 40 countries across the world, covering the aftermath of the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan from 2002-04, the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, and the Libyan uprising of 2011. In recent years, he has covered the campaign against the illegal wildlife trade across Asia.
He has an M.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
