Dean Yates is a workplace mental health expert, public speaker, podcast host, and journalist. He is an outspoken advocate on mental health, press freedom and government accountability.

Dean worked for 26 years at Reuters, the international news agency. He was bureau chief in Iraq, responsible for 100 people, and later head of mental health strategy from 2017-2020.

Dean lives in Evandale in Tasmania with his life partner Mary Binks and their three adult children Patrick, Belle and Harry.

Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent:
courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing
the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing
Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two
of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an
American helicopter in Iraq.
What followed was an unravelling of everything Dean thought
he knew of himself. His PTSD was compounded by his moral
wound - the devastation of what he thought he knew of the
world and his own character and beliefs. After years of
treatment, including several stints inside a psychiatric
facility, Dean has reshaped his view of the true meaning of
life. Here, in all its guts and glory, is that journey to a better
way of being. Dean has been to the blackest heart of
humanity and come out with strength and hope.
Line in the Sand is a memoir that is going to resonate for
generations to come. It tackles the most important topic of
our age in an unforgettable way.