Evan Williams has been a print, radio and television journalist for more than
20 years, most recently specializing in TV current affairs programs and
documentaries on a wide variety of international stories and investigations.
He currently works as an independent on-air reporter on international affairs
mainly for Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, with his work appearing on PBS in
the United States, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and many others.
Before that he was one of two Senior Staff Reporters with the Australian ABC's
flagship international current affairs program Foreign Correspondent, reporting
in 25 to 45 minute stories from around the globe.
Some of the stories he covered during that period include: Saudi Arabia's
Terror Funding Trail; Inside Islamic Jihad in South East Asia; British-occupied
Basra through the British Army and local Shi'ite communities; Vietnam's
Democratic Underground; Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea; Libya's Coming in
from the Cold; Angola's Diamond Wars; Torture and Renditions in Uzbekistan;
Pakistan's Sectarian Conflicts; Burma's Drug Running Regime; Islamic Secession
in Thailand?s South; Mindanao's Moslem Insurgency; Bosnia's Rape Babies;
Bosnia'?s Free War Criminals; Cambodia's Murderous Dictator; Catholic Sex
Cover-up in Boston; The New War Against America; Malaysia's Political
Assassination of Anwar Ibrahim; Indonesia's Military; Massacres in West Papua;
Civil War in the Solomon Islands; Fiji's Coup.
Between 1992 and 1997 he was the Australian ABC's Bangkok-based South-East Asia
correspondent covering more than ten countries through the region for Radio and
Television News and Current Affairs.
In that time he covered civil war in Burma; the UN's deployment to Cambodia;
the release of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma; the fall of Suharto in Indonesia,
coups in Cambodia; the Moslem insurgency in the Philippines among daily news
from the region.
Evan has been a finalist for several Australian Walkley Awards, won
commendations for TV interviewing and won several New York Festival TV Awards.
Evan started his career as a reporter on the Hobart Mercury Daily Newspaper in
Tasmania, Australia. He then worked in a series of newspapers and magazines
around Australia and in Britain as well as taking a year to travel overland
from Hong Kong to London.
