Arthur Neslen

Award-winning investigative journalist with a record of agenda-setting scoops and 30+ years of high impact news reporting experience. Author of two acclaimed books on Israeli and Palestinian identity.

• Activist opposed to Rio Tinto lithium mine receives anonymous death threats: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/22/activist-serbia-rio-tinto-lithium-mining-environment-death-threats
• Shell lawsuit over gasfield closure triggers climate action tremors: https://www.sustainableviews.com/shell-lawsuit-over-gasfield-closure-triggers-climate-action-tremors-0e21842b/
• High stakes treaty negotiations expose the challenge of just transition in the plastics sector: https://www.equaltimes.org/high-stakes-treaty-negotiations
• Europe's electric cars revolution risks jobs loss backlash: https://www.reuters.com/world/europes-electric-car-revolution-risks-job-loss-backlash-unions-warn-2021-09-06/
• Trump wants to ramp up coal. Spain has found a way to quit it: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spain-coal-just-transition-miners-investment_n_5c04e802e4b04fb21169842f

·  2018 Best specialist news site award (team member)

·  2015 British Journalism Awards Campaign of the Year (ditto)

·  2014 Energy Efficiency Forum Communications Prize

·  2013 Reporting Europe Prize (high commendation)

·  ‘In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian’ (University of California Press, 2011). Nominated for The Orwell Prize in 2012.

·  ‘Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche’ (Pluto Press, 2006). A Pluto Press best-seller.