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Paul Vallely

Paul Vallely
CMG
Personal details
Born (1951-11-08) 8 November 1951 (age 65)
England Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupation Writer, broadcaster & academic
Website www.paulvallely.com

Paul Vallely CMG is a leading British writer on religion, ethics, Africa and development issues. He first coined, in his seminal 1990 book Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt, the expression that campaigners needed to move "from charity to justice" – a slogan that was taken up by Jubilee 2000 and Live 8.

He is now a writer and consultant on ethics, religion and international development. He is Visiting Professor in Public Ethics at the University of Chester and a Senior Fellow at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. He writes regularly in the New York Times, The Independent on Sunday and The Guardian.

His best-selling biography Pope Francis - Untying the Knots, published by Bloomsbury in 2013, has been translated into four other languages. It was greatly expanded in 2015, with nine additional chapters on the inner workings of the current papacy, as Pope Francis: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism.

Vallely was correspondent for The Times in Ethiopia during the great famine of 1984/85. He was commended as International Reporter of the Year for his reports which Bob Geldof described as "vivid, intelligent, moving and brave". Vallely was one of the few correspondents to leave the easy air routes to the feeding camps and strike off across country to find out what was really going on, according to Paddy Coulter, then Head of Media for the aid agency Oxfam. He uncovered a number of scandals the Marxist government were trying to keep hidden, was pronounced "an enemy of the revolution", arrested by the secret police and was expelled from the country. He subsequently reported from across Africa, and elsewhere, covering wars and events in 30 different countries across the globe.

He has worked for many British national newspapers including The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Correspondent, Sunday Times (where he edited the News Review section), Independent on Sunday (where he was executive editor and then a weekly columnist) and The Independent where he was a leader-writer. Until April 2013 he was associate editor of the UK newspaper The Independent. He still writes about ethical, cultural and political issues in the Independent on Sunday. (He was once referred to by Peter Wilby in New Statesman as "the Independent's resident saint"). He is also a columnist for The Church Times and Third Way Magazine. He is a director of The Tablet. As a freelance he has written for The Independent, Sunday Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Church Times and Third Way magazine.


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