Ash Bhardwaj is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and author, whose work sits at the intersection of travel, identity, and current affairs. He has reported from over 50 countries for *BBC Radio 4, The World Service, The Telegraph, Times, Guardian, Condé Nast Traveller*, and many more, and he appears as a travel expert on *BBC One’s Morning Live* and *Sky News*. He is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and has judged both the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. *Why We Travel* is his debut book.