minister Tony Blair and covered the state visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping (including his state visit to the UK in October 2015 and South Africa in December 2015). He interviewed the late prime minister of Ethiopia Meles Zenawi, the former president of Ghana John Mahama and Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma. Moody was cited extensively by publications around the world. In February 2020, for example, he interviewed Nobel laureate Michael Levitt. The resulting article was quoted 172 times by international media organisations. He also wrote more than 150 profiles of leading thinkers such as the Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, and Edmund Phelps, the Nobel Prize winner for economics. Moody was named a 'State High-End Project Foreign Expert'. Articles Notable articles Moody has written on China and other subjects include: 'National rejuvenation' (5 July 2021) 'Leading the way: China set to play crucial role in global recovery, experts say' (10 August 2020) 'Huawei issue focuses spotlight on Sino-UK ties' (2 July 2020) 'Krugman argues against 'zombies' (12 March 2020) Awards In 2019 Moody was given the Order of Friendship (China), the highest award that can be bestowed on a foreign citizen working in China, which was presented by Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 30 September 2019. The presentation was followed by a reception hosted by Premier Li Keqiang which was broadcast on national Chinese television. Recipients of the award have included Nobel Prize winners and leading scientists, but it is rare for it to be given to someone from the media industry. Death Moody died, aged 60, on 27 June 2021 in his Beijing apartment. He had lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for more than three years. After his death, Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said Moody was "committed to communication, to being open-minded and presenting ideas and issues about China in English clearly, so that a wider audience could...engage with them, even if they didn't agree...He will be a huge loss to those who are working hard on the dialogue between China and the outside world." Wang Huiyao, president of the Center for China and Globalization in Beijing, who knew Moody for nearly a decade, referred to him as "Edgar Snow in the New Era". He described him as: "An Englishman who