John O'Sullivan (British conservative columnist)

See also John O'Sullivan (disambiguation).

John O'Sullivan (born April 25, 1942) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist who is Vice President and executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

He is the author of The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World, published by Regnery Publishing.

From the Henry Jackson Society event profile:
 * John O'Sullivan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for European Studies, The Hudson Institute also editor-at-large of National Review where he served as editor-in-chief for nine years. He was editor of the distinguished foreign policy quarterly, the National Interest, from 2003 to 2005 and editor-in-chief of United Press International from 2000 to 2003. His previous posts have included special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, associate editor of the London Times, assistant editor of the London Daily Telegraph, and editor of Policy Review. O'Sullivan is the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international bipartisan effort dedicated to reinvigorating and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies. The NAI was formally launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996 by President Vaclav Havel and Lady Thatcher. He has published articles in Encounter, Commentary, Prospect, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Policy Review, the American Spectator, the Spectator (London), Quadrant, Hibernia and other journals. He is on the Advisory Council of the Social Affairs Unit London, and the Honorary Board of the Civic Institute in Prague. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the 1991 New Year's Honors List and he lectures on British and American politics.

Other positions held

 * Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
 * emeritus editor-in-chief of United Press International
 * Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center
 * former Editor of National Review,
 * former speech writer to Margaret Thatcher
 * member of the board of Atlantic Partnership
 * member of the board of Social Affairs Unit
 * works for The National Interest magazine
 * is a speaker for Benador Associates