The Executive Committee
Foreign Press Association
President
Ian Williams is an author, writer and broadcaster who has been a member of the Foreign Press Association of the U.S. for over 20 years and has been President since 2019.
Ian was born in Liverpool and graduated from Liverpool University, despite being suspended for several year for protesting its Investments in Apartheid South Africa.
He became a professional writer after spending six months in India on a Nuffield fellowship to study labor unions in the subcontinent, following the 3 years he spent as a railway union executive in Britain. An award winning journalist, his first and most cherished was when, in 1985 he won the Liverpool Press Club award for “By-line Mania” when he wrote the centerfold for the Baptist Times. Since then has proved how much he deserved it by writing for Penthouse and Hustle but also his byline has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Scotsman, the Financial Times, the European, The Observer, The Independent, for which he was one of the founding writers, The New Statesman, the Nation, The New York Observer, Al Wasat, Al Hayat, the Australian, the South China Morning Post, the Jamaica Gleaner, not to mention Pacific Islands Monthly.
He has been covering international politics, business and finance for more than two decades and has reported from over sixty countries. While President of the UN Correspondents’ Association in 1995 and 1996, he inaugurated the Annual UNCA Awards for best coverage of the UN.
Ian is also author of Tequila: A Global History (2015), The Alms Trade (1989 and 2008), Deserter: George Bush’s War on Veterans and his Own Past (2004), The UN for Beginners (1995), Rum, a Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of ’76 (2005), UNtold, The Real Story of the UN in Peace & War One World Books 2017 George Orwell: British & American Perspectives Palgrave 2015 Cablestitch: Vincent Cable and the Privatisation of the Royal Mail, CWU 2017.
He was contributor to An Inheritance for Our Times: The Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism OR Books (2020)
Dissidents of the International Left New Internationalist (2019)
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, Cambridge University Press, 2007
The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences, (2006)
George Orwell into the 21st Century -, Paradigm Publishing, (2005)
Irving Howe and the Critics, University of Nevada Press (2005)
The UN And World Affairs, Wiley NY (1993),
No Peace To Keep, Grainpress, London (1995).
Vereinte Nationen,
Lokkum Review,
Foreign Policy in Focus
International Human Rights Journal,
World Today,
World Policy Journal,
Logos Journal,
Common Review,
London Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books
He often appears on international radio and TV, talking about geopolitical affairs and also hosts the NYFPA briefings.
He has helped train journalists in countries such as India, Kazakstan, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco and the Caribbean as well as in the US,
Contact: [email protected]
Ian was born in Liverpool and graduated from Liverpool University, despite being suspended for several year for protesting its Investments in Apartheid South Africa.
He became a professional writer after spending six months in India on a Nuffield fellowship to study labor unions in the subcontinent, following the 3 years he spent as a railway union executive in Britain. An award winning journalist, his first and most cherished was when, in 1985 he won the Liverpool Press Club award for “By-line Mania” when he wrote the centerfold for the Baptist Times. Since then has proved how much he deserved it by writing for Penthouse and Hustle but also his byline has appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Scotsman, the Financial Times, the European, The Observer, The Independent, for which he was one of the founding writers, The New Statesman, the Nation, The New York Observer, Al Wasat, Al Hayat, the Australian, the South China Morning Post, the Jamaica Gleaner, not to mention Pacific Islands Monthly.
He has been covering international politics, business and finance for more than two decades and has reported from over sixty countries. While President of the UN Correspondents’ Association in 1995 and 1996, he inaugurated the Annual UNCA Awards for best coverage of the UN.
Ian is also author of Tequila: A Global History (2015), The Alms Trade (1989 and 2008), Deserter: George Bush’s War on Veterans and his Own Past (2004), The UN for Beginners (1995), Rum, a Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of ’76 (2005), UNtold, The Real Story of the UN in Peace & War One World Books 2017 George Orwell: British & American Perspectives Palgrave 2015 Cablestitch: Vincent Cable and the Privatisation of the Royal Mail, CWU 2017.
He was contributor to An Inheritance for Our Times: The Principles and Politics of Democratic Socialism OR Books (2020)
Dissidents of the International Left New Internationalist (2019)
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, Cambridge University Press, 2007
The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences, (2006)
George Orwell into the 21st Century -, Paradigm Publishing, (2005)
Irving Howe and the Critics, University of Nevada Press (2005)
The UN And World Affairs, Wiley NY (1993),
No Peace To Keep, Grainpress, London (1995).
Vereinte Nationen,
Lokkum Review,
Foreign Policy in Focus
International Human Rights Journal,
World Today,
World Policy Journal,
Logos Journal,
Common Review,
London Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of Books
He often appears on international radio and TV, talking about geopolitical affairs and also hosts the NYFPA briefings.
He has helped train journalists in countries such as India, Kazakstan, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Morocco and the Caribbean as well as in the US,
Contact: [email protected]