John O'Sullivan

John O'Sullivan, CBE (born 25 April 1942) is a British conservative political commentator and journalist. From 1987 to 1988, he was a senior policy writer and speechwriter in 10 Downing Street for Margaret Thatcher when she was British prime minister and remained close to her up to her death. O'Sullivan served as vice president and executive editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2008 to 2012. He was editor of the Australian monthly magazine Quadrant from 2015 to 2017. Since 2017, he has been president of the Danube Institute, a Fidesz government-financed think tank based in Budapest, Hungary, and also a member of the board of advisors for the Global Panel Foundation, an NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world. A former editor of National Review from 1988 to 1997, O'Sullivan has been an editor-at-large there since then.