Isabel Hilton is an international journalist, broadcaster and author who writes on geopolitics, climate change and China. In 2006, she founded China Dialogue (China Dialogue Trust became Dialogue Earth in 2024) and was its CEO until 2021, when she became Senior Advisor, a position she held until 2023.

Isabel is co-chair of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, is chair of trustees at the Centre for Investigative Journalism, and is a non-executive director at E3G.

Isabel is a contributing editor at Prospect Magazine and has worked for The Sunday Times and The Independent and presented the BBC’s flagship news programme, The World Tonight and the arts programme Nightwaves; she was a columnist for The Guardian, a staff writer for the New Yorker, and her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, Index on Censorship and many other publications.