Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

Who is Poppy Sebag-Montefiore?

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore is a British journalist, writer and filmmaker.

She makes investigative films for BBC's Newsnight and works for BBC World Service's Newshour as well as BBC World Television.

She is Journalist in Residence at Kingston University's Writing School, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and an editor of the History Workshop Journal and History Workshop Online. She is the author of a children's book on China where she lived and worked for 5 years. She was a China Correspondent for Channel 4 News and More 4 News and set up a production company Monkeybread assisting international feature films and documentaries made in China and commissioning short independent films by Chinese journalists.

Her experimental film, Gerry and Theodore, was selected for the International Museum of Contemporary Art's NeMe The Mirror Stage: International Video Art exhibition.

Sebag-Montefiore is also co-founder of Never Again International, an international student partnership/network that seeks to call attention to both the causes and effects of genocide and organize the exchange of ideas between young people – those who have lived through genocide and those who wish to learn from them.