David Rose
director of policy and research, Free Speech Union

David Rose is the policy and research director of the Free Speech Union. In the course of a long career in journalism, he worked for national and international media organisations including the Guardian, the Observer, Vanity Fair, the Mail on Sunday and BBC current affairs television, where he made 16 long-form documentaries. He has been shortlisted seven times in the British Press Awards, in which he was named Reporter of the Year in 2016 and Feature Writer of the Year in 2018. He is also a past winner of the Royal Institute of International Affairs David Watt prize and the Howard League award for penal affairs journalism.

He is the author of one published novel and six non-fiction books, including Violation (2007), an investigation into a US death penalty miscarriage of justice, which was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Golden Dagger award, Regions of the Heart (1999), a biography of the mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, which was awarded the Trento Mountain Literature Festival grand prize. He took a first in Modern History at Magdalen College, Oxford.

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