Author, Journalist, Convener

Christopher is an author, journalist and convener. In a career that has spanned twenty-five years and four continents, he has covered revolutions and wars and written and broadcast on subjects as diverse as loneliness and religious radicalisation, the environment and being a tour guide in Iran.

Building on the success of The Lion House, his acclaimed history of the rise of Suleyman the Magnificent, Christopher recently completed The Golden Throne, the second part of his landmark trilogy on the great sultan, which comes out next year. In April 2023 Columbia Global Reports published his Flying Green, on the decarbonisation of aviation, and he is currently researching The Revolution in Farming, on the rise of sustainable agriculture in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Christopher is co-founder of the Lake District Book Festival which will launch in 2026 in the idyllic English village of Cartmel. Uniting these various threads is his role as a unifier between cultures and peoples, between the present and the past.

Christopher de Bellaigue is a regular contributor to some of the world’s most trusted media outlets, has held fellowships at the universities of Oxford, Harvard and St Andrews and has lectured in boardrooms and universities around the world.