Brendan O'Malley is a freelance journalist, author, photographer and television documentary maker, who has written about education, development and international politics for 25 years. He was international editor of The Times Educational Supplement from 1998-2006. As a consultant for UNESCO in 2007 he produced the first global study on violent political and military attacks against students, teachers and academics worldwide. He is a former judge of the African Education Journalism Award. As an author, he was shortlisted for the Orwell prize for political writing in the UK in 1999.