Sholto Byrnes
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Sholto Byrnes is a British journalist, now working as a senior fellow at the Malaysian government-funded Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) think tank, and as a weekly columnist for The National in Abu Dhabi.
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Background
Byrnes has worked as a journalist for over 20 years, including on the Independent, as a senior editor at the New Statesman and as editor of Qatar Foundation's quarterly international magazine.
In 2014 he took up a position as a senior fellow at Malaysia's Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS).
Byrnes has a BA and MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2009. [1]
Affiliations
According to the Sarawak Report, Byrne has worked with UK lobbyist Paul Stadlen who runs the communications team of the Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. [2] Byrne, however, denies having ever worked for either Stadlen or the Malaysian government. [3]
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Notes
- ↑ Mr Sholto Byrnes, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, accessed 13 May 2016
- ↑ More Smear Tactics And Black Ops By Najib's PR Hit Team - Anwar And Dr M Both Targets EXCLUSIVE!, 12 May 2015, accessed 13 May 2015
- ↑ Email from Sholto Byrnes to Spinwatch managing editor Melissa Jones, May 2016
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