Caroline Lambert

Caroline Lambert is a ghostwriter, writing collaborator and story coach helping people who have defied the odds tell their story, so they can inspire a broader audience.She has written the memoir of Sammy Lee Davis, a Medal of Honor recipient and Vietnam War veteran, who transcended his physical limits to save his unit and became an advocate for veterans. She has also collaborated with Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s anti-corruption crusader and former Presidential candidate, and Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe’s former finance minister and Secretary General of the Movement for Democratic Change, the main opposition to the rule of Robert Mugabe. She is currently collaborating with a former Cuban officer who led the Bay of Pigs invasion, and with the first woman president of Malawi. During her eight years as a staff writer and Deputy Asia Editor for The Economist, she wrote about business, economics and politics in various parts of the world. She won the Diageo Africa Business Reporting Award and the Sanlam Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism for her coverage of Africa from Johannesburg. Her other assignments included covering post-conflict situations—and at times not so “post”—reporting from Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Zimbabwe and Algeria, among others.Caroline lives in Washington D.C. with her South African husband and their daughter.