Heidi Kingstone is a respected foreign correspondent and feature writer with experience covering human rights issues, conflict and politics from countries as diverse as Afghanistan and Iraq.

Born in Canada, Heidi began writing when she moved to London in the 80s, where she has since been published in most of the major British national newspapers and magazines.

With a passion for foreign reporting, Heidi began covering Iraq many years before the invasion and travelled there on several occasions during 2003 and 2004. Her knowledge of the main political players resulted in ream of articles for a number of international publications, including an exclusive interview with then prime ministerial candidate Ahmad Chalabi. A Man With A Mission was the Financial Times magazine cover story.

In the Sunday Times Review section, she had another exclusive when Maj Gen Tim Cross, a key UK military point man, exposed how both the British and American governments ignored requests for a 'day after plan'. She extensively covered Iraq for the Jerusalem Report and was one of their contributing editors.

Afghanistan followed Iraq as a focus of interest when Heidi went there in 2007 to live and report. She has written over 40 stories on the current situation, impending civil war, the plight of women and life in the capital. The Spectator published an exclusive interview with Gen Dan McNeill, then head of the NATO forces - the man with Afghanistan's fate in his hands.

Her desire to report important, untold stories has taken her around the world and to some of the most desperate places on the planet. In Bangladesh Heidi went to receal the plight of the Rohingya refugees. In the Democratic Republic of Congo she wrote about the possibility of a humanitarian crists; in Kenya Heidi reported from Africa's largest slum – Kibera - just after the country's 2008 elections.

She has covered disease and poverty from Mali to Sierra Leone to life in Darfur, and water wars between Palestine and Israel, where she interviewed first term Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Canada's National Post asked her to write a four part series on the 'Worst Places in the World'.

She wrote the prestigious 'Diary' for The Spectator about her time in Sudan and her meeting with Hassan al-Turabi, the former Sudanese leader, who invited Osama bin Laden to his country.
For several years she worked as a weekly columnist and foreign correspondent for the Star and the Saturday Star in Johannesburg, and wrote extensively during that time for many of the Independent Group's other South African titles, including the Independent on Sunday.
Heidi has also worked as a speechwriter and consultant, writing fact sheets and stories for the German government's aid wing, GTZ. She has appeared on the BBC World's current affairs talk show, Dateline: London and given many radio interviews.