Amelia Gentleman


Amelia Sophie Gentleman is a British journalist. She is a reporter for The Guardian.

Early life and education

Born in London in 1972, Gentleman is the daughter of the artist David Gentleman and his second wife Susan Evans, daughter of George Ewart Evans.
Gentleman was educated at St Paul's Girls' School, an independent day school, before studying Russian and History at Wadham College, Oxford.

Career

Earlier in her career, Gentleman was the New Delhi correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and the Paris and Moscow correspondent for The Guardian. Since 2009, she has been in London, writing features for The Guardian, mainly looking at the impact of government policy.
For six months, Gentleman worked for The Guardian on the story of the Windrush scandal, the deportation of people originally from British colonies in the Caribbean, or elsewhere in the Commonwealth, who legally had a right of residence in the UK. According to Sara El-Harrak, writing for the openDemocracy website, the issue had previously been neglected by the British media. The scandal broke in April 2018 and within weeks led to resignation of the Conservative Home Secretary, Amber Rudd. Gentleman won the 2018 Paul Foot Award for her work on the Windrush story. She was also named as the Political Studies Association's journalist of the year for 2018, with Carole Cadwalladr, and as journalist of the year in the British Journalism Awards, 2018.

Personal life

Gentleman met Jo Johnson, MP for Orpington whilst at Oxford University in 1991. They married in 2005 and live in Camden. The couple have a daughter and a son.

Awards

- The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment, Guardian Faber, longlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize 2019