Paul Vallely

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

He 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. He was visiting professor in Public Ethics at the University of Chester until 2019. He 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. He writes for The Guardian, Sunday Times and The Church Times.

His biography Pope Francis - Untying the Knots, published by Bloomsbury Publishing 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. His latest book is a 750-page study of Philanthropy titled Philanthropy – from Aristotle to Zuckerberg.