This story was featured on: Episode 22
CHRISTIAN DAVIES
He grew up in Oxford, and studied History at University College London. Between 2009 and 2010 he worked in the Political Office of Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, after which he completed a Masters in International Relations at the London School of Economics, specialising in the international relations of the Middle East. Between 2012 and 2015 he worked as a Parliamentary Researcher in the House of Commons for former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, who was then Chairman of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee.
Since the beginning of this year he has been working as a writer and journalist based between the UK and Poland, and has been published in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and the Polish broadsheet Gazeta Wyborcza.
His publications about Poland, published in The Guardian, have been translated into Polish and have inspired discussions and debates:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/16/conspiracy-theorists-who-have-taken-over-poland
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/08/the-ghosts-of-smolensk-poland-kaczynski-russia/
Polish translation:
http://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/1,124059,19653245,christian-davies-jak-spiskowcy-zagarneli-polske.html
Christian Davies about himself
In Episode 22, we present a small part of our interview with Christian, the one devoted to his relationship with his father, famous historian prof. Norman Davies, the leading British expert on Poland, author of 17 groundbreaking books.