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Robert Hutchison (born 26 May 1938) is a writer and journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is the author of eight books covering white-collar crime and adventure travel to historical fiction.

Early Life
Son of Dr Keith Ogilvie Hutchison and Millicent, née Branch, Hutchison attended Lower Canada College in Montreal and McGill University, but did not complete a Bachelor of Arts degree, preferring to travel instead. In May 1959 he married Bridget Pyke of Hudson, Quebec. That same year they moved to Switzerland, settling in Geneva. They have three daughters, Daphne, Tamara and Chloe.

Career
Hutchison became a correspondent for the Sunday and Daily Telegraph of London. He covered the 1967 Six Day War and its aftermath from Benghazi and Cairo, and reported on the First Islamic Summit Conference at Rabat in September 1969. From 1975 to 1982 he was European correspondent for The Financial Post of Toronto and in 1977 received the Business Writing Award for Investigative Reporting for a series of articles that laid bare the high-level corruption surrounding the sale of Canadian nuclear reactors to Argentina.

Personal Life
In 1980 he separated from his wife and since 1990 has lived in the Swiss alpine town of Leysin with his companion Lucia Kaeppeli, a medical representative.

Interests
Other than the Middle East and India, Hutchison’s interests include climbing, ski touring and trekking, with experience in the Alps and Himalayas. His photographs have appeared in publications around the world.

Contributor

 * Views in the Himala Mountains by James Baillie Fraser. A re-edition, published by Parag Books, New Delhi, 2011

Editor
Fighting for Survival – a report on the causes of insecurity in the Horn of Africa, published by IUCN, Gland, 1994 (ISBN 2-8317-0077-9)