21 Facts About Paul Vallely

Paul Vallely CMG is a British writer on religion, ethics, Africa and development issues.

Paul Vallely is a Senior Fellow at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester and is a lay Ecumenical Canon of the Anglican Manchester Cathedral and a member of the Cathedral Council.

Paul Vallely was visiting professor in Public Ethics at the University of Chester until 2019.

Paul Vallely is a member of the Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners chaired by the former Bishop of Liverpool, Rt Rev James Jones, who chaired the Hillsborough Independent Panel.

Paul Vallely writes in the New York Times, The Guardian, Sunday Times and in The Church Times.

Paul Vallely was commended as International Reporter of the Year for his reports which Bob Geldof described as "vivid, intelligent, moving and brave".

Paul 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.

Paul Vallely 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 expelled from the country.

Paul Vallely subsequently reported from across Africa, and elsewhere, covering wars and events in 30 different countries across the globe.

Paul Vallely has worked for many British national newspapers including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Sunday Correspondent, The Sunday Times, Independent on Sunday and The Independent where he was a leader-writer.

Paul Vallely still writes about ethical, cultural and political issues in the Independent on Sunday.

Paul Vallely is a director and trustee of The Tablet the second-oldest surviving weekly journal in Britain.

Paul Vallely is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester.

Paul Vallely returned from covering the famine in Ethiopia in 1985 troubled by the adverse conditions under which ordinary people lived.

Paul Vallely has chaired or been active in a number of prominent UK aid agencies, including Traidcraft, the Catholic Institute for International Relations, Christian Aid and CAFOD.

Paul Vallely has been an adviser to the Catholic bishops of England and Wales and was the author of their reports "Catholic Social teaching and the Big Society" and A place of redemption: a Christian approach to punishment and prison.

Paul Vallely concluded that Bergoglio did not actively betray two Jesuit priests, Franz Jalics and Orlando Yorio, into the hands of a military death squad, as some critics had alleged.

Reuters said: "Paul Vallely's Untying the Knots fills the gaps left by 'instant books' on Pope Francis".

Paul Vallely's approach is rooted in Catholic Social Teaching, a rich ethical tradition which draws on 100 years of attempts by the Catholic church to find a third way between unregulated capitalism - and its associated political systems which privilege the individual at the expense of society - and those associated with control by the state which privilege society at the expense of the individual.

Paul Vallely was a founder member of the ethics committee of Waitrose supermarkets and advises John Lewis on human rights.

Paul Vallely was created a Companion of St Michael and St George "for services to journalism and to the developing world" on 17 June 2006.