Personal

• Visiting Alistair Horne Fellow, St Antony’s College Oxford,
  2004-05
• Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: MA (Hons) degree in Modern History
• President of the Oxford Union, 1977.
• Mary Institute, St Louis, Missouri, USA (1-year American Field Service scholarship)
• The Royal Naval School
  [now The Royal School], Haslemere, Surrey

Recipient

• Military History Monthly Book of the Year Gold Award 2018
• The Pakistan Society Award, 2007
• The  Kashmir Award 2006, Justice Foundation,
  Kashmir Centre
• RUSI/St Antony’s 2006 Essay Competition:
  The Sociology of Terrorism: runner-up.

Memberships & Affiliations

• Afghan Women’s Support Forum afghanwsf.co.uk
• Asia House
• Chatham House
• Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (Editorial Advisory Board)
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Kashmir Institute (Advisory Board)
• Oxford Literary and Debating Union Trust (Chair)
• Oxford Union (Life Member)
• Pakistan Society (Life Member)
• The Round Table, Chair (2017-2023) & member of the Editorial Board since 2005
• Royal Society for Asian Affairs
• Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI)

Favourite Charities:

Afghanaid www.afghanaid.org.uk

Clement James Centre, www.clementjames.org

Macmillan Cancer Support   www.macmillan.org.uk

I also support the Mianwali Education Trust, a school in Mianwali, southern Punjab, Pakistan. See https://www.facebook.com/met.tms/

I’m married to Stephen Willis and we live in Central London, near Notting Hill; our three adult children have all moved out! When I am not writing, I love reading, walking, swimming, playing tennis, the piano, listening to music, being with my family and friends, and foreign travel.

My agent is

Sara Menguc
8D Orleans Road
Twickenham
TW1 3BL