Turi Munthe

Munthe studied Arabic and History at Oxford, Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and dropped out of a PhD at NYU in Anthropology of Religion^[4] to start a (failed) biofuels business in Ghana.^[5]

Munthe began his career with IBTauris, while writing for the British and US press on Middle East politics.^[6][7] He published The Saddam Hussein Reader,^[8] before covering the 2nd Gulf War as a freelance journalist.^[9] He then launched The Beirut Review, a cultural magazine published with the Daily Star under Rami Khouri,^[10] before returning to London as Head of the Middle East Programme at the Royal United Services Institute.^[11]

In late 2007, he founded Demotix with Jonathan Tepper.^[12] Demotix built a network of 75,000 contributors around the world and exited to Corbis Corporation in 2012.^[13] Munthe joined Marcus Brauchli and Sasa Vucinic’s North Base Media as a Venture Partner in 2015,^{[14][citation needed]} before founding Parlia in 2019.^{[citation needed]} In 2015, he co-curated the Global Art Forum^[15] with Sultan al-Qassemi and Shumon Basar.^[16]

Munthe has lectured on new media all over the world, and has made regular news appearances.^[17][18] He sits on the boards of openDemocracy, The New Humanitarian^[19] and The Signals Network,^[20] and has been a trustee of Index on Censorship and The Bureau for Investigative Journalism.^[21] He sits on the board of GEDI Gruppo Editoriale, the largest newspaper conglomerate in Italy.^[22]