Rhetoric about Iran repeat of Iraq propaganda? David Gardner: Without evidence, threat of Iran’s nuclear proliferation seems more like political convenience than reality Sept. 14 – Recent suggestion of a covert nuclear weapons program in Iran, by the UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is lacking conclusive evidence, said David Gardner, foreign affairs […]
Author Archives: David Gardner
David Gardner is International Affairs Editor at the Financial Times. He was born in
Brussels and educated at Stonyhurst College and St John’s College, Oxford. He joined
the Financial Times in 1978 and has worked mainly as a foreign correspondent or
writer on international affairs. His assignments include: Mexico & Central America
correspondent, European Union correspondent, Middle East Editor, South Asia
bureau chief. He was the FT's Chief Leader Writer and Associate Editor from 2006
until this year. In 2003 he won the David Watt political journalism prize for his
writing on the Arab world. He is the author of the recent “Last Chance: the Middle
East in the Balance” (published by I. B. Tauris in the UK and Palgrave Macmillan in
the US), which in April was long-listed for the 2010 George Orwell book prize for
the art of political writing. He was made a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s
College Oxford in 2008, and is an associate editor of Europe's World, the pan-
European policy journal published out of Brussels. David Gardner has lectured at
think-tanks, foundations and universities in Europe, the Middle East and the US, and
is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television.
