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John O'Sullivan (columnist)

O'Sullivan in November 2007

John O'Sullivan, CBE (born 25 April 1942) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. From 1987 to 1988, he was a senior policy writer and speechwriter in 10 Downing Street for Margaret Thatcher when she was British prime minister and remained close to her up to her death.[1][2]

O'Sullivan served as vice president and executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2008 to 2012.[3] He was editor of the Australian monthly magazine Quadrant from 2015 to 2017.[4][5]

Since 2017, he has been president of the Danube Institute,[6] a Fidesz government-financed[7][8] think tank based in Budapest, Hungary, and a member of the board of advisors for the Global Panel Foundation, an NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world.[9]

A former editor of National Review from 1988 to 1997, O'Sullivan has been an editor-at-large there since then.[10]

  1. ^ John O'Sullivan, "She Kicked up and Kissed Down," The Globe and Mail, 9 April 2013.
  2. ^ John O'Sullivan, "The Two Sides of Margaret Thatcher," The Telegraph, 13 April 2013.
  3. ^ "RFE/RL Announces Senior Appointments," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 16 January 2008.
  4. ^ "Quadrant's New Editor". Quadrant.org.au. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  5. ^ Meade, Amanda (24 May 2017). "Quadrant's editor-in-chief apologises for article about bombing ABC's Q&A program". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 November 2019. Keith Windschuttle says the article failed to meet Quadrant's standards and he has ordered it be deleted from its website
  6. ^ "Danube Institute honlapja". Danubeinstitute.hu. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  7. ^ Balogh, Eva S. (16 August 2020). "The government-financed Danube Institute and its director, John O'Sullivan". Hungarian Spectrum. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  8. ^ Zerofsky, Elisabeth (19 October 2021). "How the American Right Fell in Love With Hungary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Global Panel Foundation - Meeting the World in Person". Globalpanel.org. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  10. ^ "John O'Sullivan," National Review Online. Retrieved 2 February 2021.

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