Christopher Michael Bennett
Address: Avenue des Rogations 46, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
E-mail address: CMBennett@compuserve.com
Telephone: 00 32 2 733 9757 (home); 00 32 476 314 608 (mobile).
Birth: 28 August 1966 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Nationality: British; American; Slovene.
Current activities
Editor, NATO Review, since May 2000.
Professional experience
Editor, Balkan Crisis Report, specialised Balkan news service of
the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting, February
1999-April 2000.
Director, International Crisis Group Balkans Project, Sarajevo, May
1998-February 1999.
Political analyst, International Crisis Group, and correspondent
for The Economist in Bosnia, February 1996-February 1999.
Freelance journalist, Madrid, researched documentary on the life of
Francisco Franco among other assignments, September 1995-January 1996.
Business journalist at The Mail on Sunday and lecturer of Yugoslav
history at London University's School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, August 1994-August 1995.
Freelance writer/consultant/lecturer, wrote book Yugoslavia's
Bloody Collapse, published by Chris Hurst in the UK and New York
University Press in the USA, consultant on the BBC's Death of
Yugoslavia documentary series, August 1993-August 1994.
Energy Correspondent, Bloomberg Business News, September 1992-July
1993.
Freelance journalist in former Yugoslavia, reporting for many news
organisations, including The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The
Christian Science Monitor, The European, IRN, LBC and Monitor Radio,
June 1991-August 1992.
City University Journalism School, Newspaper Journalism Diploma,
1990-91.
Education and degrees
- London School of Economics, 1989-90, International Relations MSc.
- Zagreb University, January-June 1989, guest student, International Relations.
- University College, London 1985-88, History BA 2(1).
- Ljubljana University, January-June 1985, guest student, Slovene.
Academic publications
- "Bosnia and Herzegovina" in Democracy and Deep-Rooted
Conflict: Options for Negotiators, (Stockholm, International IDEA,
1998).
- "Yugoslavia's Rise and Fall", The Politics of
Multinational States, (London, Macmillan, 1996).
- Yugoslavia's Bloody Collapse: Causes, Course and
Consequences, (London, Chris Hurst, 1995; and New York, New York
University Press, 1995).
- "Yugoslavia and the European Community: a closer
relationship?", South Slav Journal (Vol.12 No 3-4, 1990).
Opinion pieces published in the following newspapers
The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles
Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, The
European, The European Voice.
Documentaries
- The Reckoning, documentary on Radovan Karadzic, Frontline, 1998, consultant.
- Francisco Franco Profile, Reuters Television, 1995, producer.
- The Death of Yugoslavia, Brian Lapping Associates for BBC, 1995, consultant.
Foreign languages
Fluent Slovene, Serbo-Croat and French, reasonable Spanish, some
German and Russian.
Referees
Hrair Balian
Elections Director
ODIHR
hrair@odihr.osce.waw.pl
Tony Borden
Executive Director
IWPR
Tony@iwpr.net
Jean-Pierre Ollivier
Director of Publications
NATO
JPOllivier@hq.nato.int
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