She led the development of the Blackwall Debates in East London, an initiative designed to bring individuals from different estates and different ethnic groups together in a debating forum. She is a graduate in Modern History from Cambridge University, and has a Masters’ Degree in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London. She worked as a journalist and researcher in Spain (where she lived for 3 years), Cuba, Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. She wrote for a study group that looked at communist countries in transition, and for The Washington Post, The New York Times, Politica Exterior, The Guardian, Prospect, openDemocracy, The Sunday Times and others. She also co-produced several documentary films for Channel 4 and the BBC and helped to launch the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol in 2002.
Isabella Thomas
Sept. 12, 2011, 1:50 p.m.
Isabella Thomas is Senior Adviser to the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation and Axess TV in Stockholm (where she holds the position of program director). She has acted as convenor of European conferences on the theme of the Secular State and Society and on the future of the West.