Simon Clark

Biography

Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer of stories about people and events from Afghanistan to Kenya, from Tower Hamlets to the City of London, from New York to Edinburgh. During travels as a reporter and feature writer I have met and told the stories of presidents and impoverished farmers, steel tycoons and steel workers, renewable energy entrepreneurs and oil industry executives, bankers and maids -- people who earn millions of dollars a month and people who live on a dollar a day.

I seek to honour the people I meet with understanding and respect for their world and their perceptions. I do this because I believe that all human experience of life is equally valuable, regardless of financial wealth or social status.

I combine a sophisticated understanding of financial markets and corporate finance with a deep concern for human rights. My stories reflect my quest to report about the fullness of human experience rather than compartmentalizing activity into separate economic, political and social spheres.