Isabel Hilton

Isabel Hilton (born 1949 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster based in London.

She was educated at Edinburgh University where she studied Chinese to post-graduate level. As Secretary of the China-Scottish Association, based at her University, Hilton was placed on MI5's "Christmas Tree" list, which prevented her from employment with BBC in 1976. [See Mark Hollingsworth and Richard Norton-Taylor "Blacklist: The Inside Story of Political Vetting", 1988, Hogarth Press, p.104. The relevant extract (Chapter 5) is online [http://bilderberg.org/mi5bbc.htm here] .] She joined the "Daily Express" the following year.

Having been the Latin American affairs editor at the "Sunday Times", she chose not to move to Wapping with her paper and joined "The Independent" in 1986 and filled the same role there. Hilton joined "The Guardian" in 1997, where she has contributed a regular column.

Hilton has presented "The World Tonight" 1995-98 on BBC Radio 4 and from 1999 has presented "Nightwaves" on BBC Radio 3. Concurrently from March 2005 to July 2007 she was editor and then editor-in-chief of the openDemocracy.net [Isabel Hilton [http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/opendemocracy_salute_farewell "openDemocracy: a farewell salute"] , openDemocracy 17 July 2007. Retrieved on 13 April 2008.] website and is now the editor of chinadialogue.

Isabel Hilton is married to the distinguished journalist Neal Ascherson, with whom she has a son and daughter.

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External links

* [http://www.chinadialogue.net/static/about#team Biography as editor of chinadialogue]
* [http://www.lettre-ulysses-award.org/jury06/bio_hilton.html Biography as a member of the Lettre Ulysses Award jury]