John Witherow is Editor of The Sunday Times, Britain's biggest-selling quality newspaper, with a circulation each week of one million copies.  He was born in South Africa and later brought up in Britain and Australia.  He started in journalism with the BBC in Namibia when he was 19 and after university continued his career with Reuters in London and Madrid.   John then joined The Times, where he was the paper's correspondent in the Falklands and Iran-Iraq Wars.  He co-wrote the book The Winter War with Patrick Bishop about the Falklands.  He spent six months working on the Boston Globe in Boston and Washington before moving in the mid 1980s to The Sunday Times as defence correspondent.  He later became diplomatic correspondent and foreign editor.  

John was made Editor in 1994.  Since then the paper has led the way in advocating reform of Parliament.  It exposed the cash for questions scandal in the 1990s, cash for honours and more recently cash for amendments in the House of Lords and the abuse of the expenses system by Baroness Uddin and Lord Paul, both of whom were fined and suspended.  Recent scoops have been the exposure of lobbying by former ministers, and alleged corruption in the World Cup bid for 2018 and 2022.  The paper has won numerous awards under his editorship.