Turi Munthe

Turi Munthe is a journalist, political analyst, and media entrepreneur. Born in Rome, he graduated in Arabic and History from Oxford University before completing postgraduate studies at New York University. Munthe began his career in publishing, writing for the British and American press. He edited the Saddam Hussein Reader and covered the Iraq War in 2003 as a journalist before founding the Beirut Review of Books. Between 2004 and 2005, he managed the Middle East program at RUSI, the world's oldest defense think tank. In 2008, Munthe founded Demotix, which became the world's largest photojournalism network and citizen journalism platform, which he sold to Corbis Corp in 2012. Since 2015, he has been a Venture Partner at North Base Media VC, which invests in media and media technology, and in 2019 he founded Parlia – an encyclopedia of opinion (parlia.com). He has written for The Economist, The Guardian , and TLS, and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, and Fox News. He lives between Milan and London with his wife and children.