Roger Boyes is a British journalist and author. He is the Berlin correspondent for British newspaper The Times, covering Germany and northern Europe. He also has a column in German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel entitled 'My Berlin'. Boyes entered journalism as a Reuters correspondent in Moscow, joined Financial Times as an East Europe specialist in 1978 and was Bonn correspondent of FT 1979 ? 81. He then switched to The Times and became East Europe correspondent based in Warsaw where he covered the solidarity revolution and the imposition of martial law. Since then he has been posted to Rome as a Southern Europe correspondent, Bonn and Berlin correspondent 1993- 2010. 

August 7th, 1952 in Hereford (Age 72)