David Aikman, is a best-selling author, journalist, and foreign policy consultant. Aikman graduated from Oxford University?s Worcester College in 1965 and gained a PhD from the University of Washington in Russian and Chinese history in 1979. He worked as a journalist for Time Magazine from 1971 to 1994, during which he reported on nearly all the major historical events of the time. He has interviewed several major world figures, including Mother Teresa, Manuel Noriega, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pham Van Dong, Boris Yeltsin and Billy Graham. Since 2005, Aikman has served as a Professor of History at Patrick Henry College. 

January 1st, 1944 in Surrey (Age 80)