Sholto Byrnes

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Sholto Byrnes is a former British journalist, now a senior fellow at the Malaysian government-funded Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) and as weekly columnist for The National in Abu Dhabi.

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.

Affiliations

According to reports Byrne was working with Paul Stadlen on the communications team of the Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak.

Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes

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