Matthew Green, Reporter, writer and video journalist

Matthew Green is a British journalist and the author of The Wizard of the Nile - The Hunt for Africa's Most Wanted (Portobello), a book about his quest to track down Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels. The book was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political writing.

Born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1975, Matthew was educated in London before reading politics, philosophy and economics at Balliol college, Oxford.

After joining Reuters in 1998, he has worked mainly in Africa, along with a stint embedded with US Marines during the invasion of Iraq. He has also contributed to publications including The Economist, The Times, Arena and Esquire. He has appeared frequently as a commentator on the BBC World Service.

From 2007 to 2009, he was the West Africa correspondent for the Financial Times. He now covers Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Financial Times from Kabul and Islamabad.