Christina Lamb is a British journalist who is currently Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times. She was educated at University College, Oxford and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She has won Foreign Correspondent of the year four times. Lamb says she always wanted be a writer and be able to write about other people. The sense of adventure was the real draw to the career. In her book Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands she says she used to be mischievous at school and wasn't particularly studious in lessons.... She gained entry into Oxford but soon changed from a chemistry degree to enroll in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Her journalistic career began at the Financial Times as a summer intern, it was here she described the foreign correspondents as 'Man-like-Gods' in reference to their gender and the exoticness of their lives and suitases, it was something she wanted to be a part of. Her first major interview was with Benazir Bhutto in London in 1987 where subsequently she was then invited to her wedding in Pakistan later that year.
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