Simon Cox

Simon Cox is a multi-award winning executive producer at BBC World Service investigations specialising in investigations focusing on the MENA region. His projects include the Bafta winner ,"Life and Death in Gaza" which followed four characters for the first year of the war in Gaza and "The Schools that Chain Boys", an undercover investigation into abuse in Islamic schools in Sudan which won a Royal Television Society award. He was previously an investigative reporter working across radio, TV and online.  His investigations have included an expose of match fixing in top level tennis; the far right in the UK and Europe and the hunt for the world’s most wanted female terrorist. He has also presented for Channel 4 Dispatches and written for The Sunday Times Magazine. Simon has reported from over 30 countries covering stories ranging from Ebola in DR Congo to terrorist attacks in the US. He is the author of “The Reykjavik Confessions” about an unsolved murder in Ireland and is currently completing a young adult dystopian novel. In 2023 he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Essex for his work in journalism.