Name Poppy Sebag-Montefiore Education University College London | Role Journalist | |
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore is a British journalist, writer and filmmaker.
She makes investigative films for BBC's Newsnight. 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. She is the author of a children's book on China. She was a China Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
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.
Poppy Sebag-Montefiore worked for the BBC in Beijing after studying history at University College London and attending Francis Holland School. She now works with print, film and radio mainly between China and London. She has written for The Guardian and The Independent.