Will Heilpern

Journalist

United Kingdom

Will is a Cambridge graduate and MSc candidate in Global Politics at the LSE, set to graduate in 2018. Over the past couple of years, he has written news and features for numerous publications including CNN, The Economist, Business Insider, The New Statesman and The Times.

In the past, Will has written on myriad subjects, interviewing the likes of Richard Branson, world champion boxer David Haye and notorious columnist Katie Hopkins. However, after a year spent working in the European Parliament and focused study at the LSE, Will is interested political trends including populism, globalisation and the future of work.

Portfolio
The Economist
03/06/2018
Why climate migrants do not have refugee status

EACH morning, as the tide recedes, the people of the Marshall Islands check the walls that protect their homes from the sea. Sea levels in this part of the western Pacific are rising by 12mm a year-four times the global average-and countering them with sandbags, concrete and metal is a Sisyphean task.

CNN
Kiron University: Open only for refugees

Not only would this give displaced people a higher chance of employment in their new countries, but it would provide a social and professional network where they can meet others facing similar challenges. But with 42,500 people being forced from their homes every day, who could afford such a monumental project?

Business Insider
North Korean defector on living in the West: 'We are so disconnected'

Yeonmi Park, 22, is in the rare position of being able to contrast Western societies with the secretive, authoritarian state of North Korea. Park, who grew up in the North Korean city of Hyesan, told Business Insider that her childhood was dominated by hunger pangs - especially when she was 9 and her father was imprisoned after being accused of trading goods on the black market.

Newstatesman
04/08/2015
We can't just give Nigel Farage the silent treatment

The devil makes work for idle hands, which means that the parliamentary recess is always a dangerous time. That, Brexit aside, Theresa May's domestic agenda is thin gruel at the best of times, means that people are already antsy for a much-needed injection of drama.