Joel Cohen is currently studying a BA in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

He has previously been an intern for the online magazine spiked, and has had articles published there as well as in the Independent, openDemocracy, Crossing Borders magazine and the London Student. He also reviews documentary films for Culture Wars. In 2009 he helped produce Where Is My Solomon?, a documentary film about the status of African Refugees and Asylum-seekers in Israel.

He competed in the Institute of Ideas & Pfizer Debating Matters Competition in 2007-8 and has continued to support the competition as an alumnus ever since. He is also a graduate of the Young Journalist’s Academy.

In 2008-9 Joel took a gap year to live, study and travel around the Middle East. In 2010 he drove from London to Ghana in an old Ford Fiesta.