The Most Dangerous Man in the World

Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist and a former reporter for the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent and Four Corners programs. Fowler began his journalism career in the UK in the early 1970s, and has been the chief of staff and acting foreign editor of The Australian. The Most Dangerous Man in the World was first published in 2011 and updated in 2012 and 2020. Fowler’s interview with Julian Assange in 2010 for Foreign Correspondent won the New York Festival Gold Medal. His other books are The War on Journalism (2015), Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism (2017) and Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (2024). Fowler is a winner of the United Nations Peace Prize, has lectured on journalism at universities in Australia and the UK, and has contributed to various academic papers.