He edits the Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence, BIRN’s annual bursary for long-form journalism. He previously worked for the BBC News website’s world desk, and for flagship BBC radio and TV programmes.
He also spent two years in Iraq as an editor on media development programmes. His reporting from Iraq, the Balkans and the Caucasus has been published by the Financial Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Monocle and BBC News. He graduated in English Literature from Cambridge University.