About the author
Author in Cambodia, photo: Alison Locke
Simon Conway was born in California in 1967, educated in Britain and studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
He served in the British army with the Black Watch and the Queens’ Own Highlanders. After leaving the military he worked for The HALO Trust clearing land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Kosovo, Abkhazia, Eritrea and Sri Lanka.
As Director of Landmine Action he set up and ran clearance projects in Western Sahara and Guinea Bissau. As co-Chair of the Cluster Munition Coalition he successfully campaigned for an international treaty to ban cluster bombs.
He is currently living in Washington, D.C. with his wife the Channel Four News Correspondent Sarah Smith. He has two daughters.