Chris Booth
Former BBC Moscow and BBC Bagdad Bureau chief
Chris Booth has spent more than three decades working in multimedia content production. He was based in Moscow for more than ten of those years, working for Sky, NBC, Associated Press Television and BBC, culminating in appointment as bureau chief responsible for the former Soviet Union. After Moscow, Chris worked as the BBC’s bureau chief in Baghdad, as well as holding senior positions in the BBC World Service newsroom. In recent years, Chris has run a successful consultancy focused on media development, with a specialisation in journalists’ safety and wellbeing.
