Paul Vallely

This article is about the British journalist. For the American general and commentator, see Paul E. Vallely.

Paul Vallely
CMG FRSA
Personal details
Born (1951-11-08) 8 November 1951 (age 73)[1]
Middlesbrough, England
OccupationWriter, broadcaster & academic
Websitewww.paulvallely.com

Paul Vallely CMG is a British writer on religion, ethics, Africa and development issues. In his seminal 1990 book Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt, he first coined the phrase that campaigners needed to move "from charity to justice" – a slogan that was taken up by Jubilee 2000 and Live 8.

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.[2] He was visiting professor in Public Ethics at the University of Chester until 2019.[3] 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, who chaired the Hillsborough Independent Panel.[4] He writes in the New York Times, The Guardian, Sunday Times and in The Church Times.

His biography Pope Francis - Untying the Knots, published by Bloomsbury 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, a six-year 750-page study Philanthropy – from Aristotle to Zuckerberg, has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "a chronicle every bit as encyclopaedic as the title suggests".[5]

  1. ^ Vallely, Paul WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO". www.ukwhoswho.com. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U40938
  2. ^ "Diocese of Manchester - News - New Honorary Ecumenical Canon". www.manchester.anglican.org. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Paul Vallely". 17 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Independent Commission into the Experience of Victims and Long-Term Prisoners – About the Commission".
  5. ^ Lenkowsky, Leslie. "'Philanthropy' Review: Thanks to the Givers". WSJ. Retrieved 14 March 2023.