Andrew West is a journalist and broadcaster who currently presents The Religion & Ethics Report on RN.
He was a senior reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald and The Australian and is the author of two books on Australian politics and culture, including a biography of the former Foreign Minister and NSW Premier Bob Carr.
Andrew's work has appeared in The Best Australian Political Writing (MUP, 2008), The New York Times, The South China Morning Post, The Monthly and The Christian Science Monitor.
He has been a regular fill-in host of two flagship RN programs, Late Night Live and Saturday Extra, and a correspondent for BBC Religion.
Andrew is a graduate of the University of Sydney and Columbia University in New York City. In 2013, the alumni of the University of Sydney elected him a Fellow of the Senate, the university's governing body.