POLITICAL TOURS - Key Persons
Angus Roxburgh is Political Tours' Russia Tour Leader and has extensive…
Brian Taylor is a former political editor for BBC Scotland and columnist…
Job Titles:
- Travel Writer
- Cuba Expert
- Cuba Tour Expert
Claire Boobbyer is a travel writer and Cuba travel expert. She has been exploring the island for more than 16 years and writes features on Cuba's culture, nature, history and tourism for the international press. She has written Cuba travel articles for Condé Nast Traveller, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Time Out, and Skift, among others. She is also the author of Frommer's Easyguide to Cuba. Claire also works as a tour leader, guide, and translator in Cuba.
Job Titles:
- Israel and Palestine Expert
- Public Opinion Expert
Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is a public opinion expert and an international political and strategic consultant; she is also an academic and a writer. Her doctoral research examined unrecognized states, which emerged from ethno-nationalist conflicts and declared independence unilaterally.
In the past, she has worked as a Senior Analyst for the Washington-based global firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research; the director of international campaigns at GCS Issue Management, and a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute. She has advised and conducted research on five national campaigns in Israel.
As an independent consultant, she conducts extensive public opinion research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the peace process, along with issues of democracy, human rights, minority relations and foreign affairs for a wide range of NGOs. Ms. Scheindlin works internationally on electoral campaigns, social and civil society projects in Serbia, Ukraine, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and the US among other countries. Ms. Scheindlin holds a doctorate in political science at Tel Aviv University; she is an adjunct university lecturer, a regular media commentator, and she writes a regular column at +972 Magazine, where she is also Chairperson of the Board of Directors.
Job Titles:
- Expert
- Georgia Tour Expert
Robert Parsons has a PhD from Glasgow University on the origins of Georgian nationalism…
Dima Bit-Suleiman has almost two decades of experience as a journalist and producer…
Job Titles:
- Founding Chairman of the European Stability Initiative
- Germany Tour Expert
Gerald Knaus is the founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI)…
Job Titles:
- Founding Co - Chairman
- Israel & Palestine Expert
Gershon Baskin Ph.D. is the founding Co-Chairman of IPCRI, the Israel Palestine Center…
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- Colombia Tour Expert
- Freelance Journalist
Joe Parkin Daniels is a freelance journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. He covers conflict…
Kate Adie became a familiar figure to viewers as the BBC's Chief News Correspondent…
Job Titles:
- Colombia Tour Expert
- Freelance Journalist
Laura Dixon is a British freelance journalist based in Bogota. She writes regularly for The Times…
Job Titles:
- Russian Journalist
- Ukraine Expert
- Ukraine Tour Expert
Leonid is a Russian journalist who worked for 12 years with the BBC in Moscow. He is a widely acknowledged expert on the crisis in Ukraine. Previously he was a correspondent for Newsweek.
He now writes for The New Republic, Politico, Bloomberg, News Week, The Guardian and Al Jazeera and Morgenbladet. He is also co-author of the Lonely Planet Guides to Moscow and Ukraine.
Job Titles:
- Cuba Expert
- Cuba Tour Expert
Michael J. Bustamante, Ph.D. (Yale University, 2016) is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Florida International University, specializing in modern Cuba, Cuban-America, and the Caribbean.
Dr. Bustamante's current book project, "Cuban Counterpoints: Memory Struggles in Revolution and Exile," tracks clashes over Cuban collective and historical memory, on and off the island, in the wake of the 1959 Revolution. His scholarly writings have appeared in Journal of American Ethnic History, Latino Studies, Cuban Studies, and Perspectives on History, among other publications. With Jennifer Lambe (Brown University), he is co-editor of the volume "New Histories of the Cuban Revolution," currently under review with Duke University Press.
Prior to pursuing graduate work, Bustamante served as Research Associate for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. He comments frequently on contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American affairs for publications like Foreign Affairs and NACLA Report on the Americas, and he has been an invited guest for media outlets like NPR, the BBC, Al-Jazeera America, and ABC Radio Australia. Since 2013, he has served as a recurring study-leader for educational trips to Cuba. His writings have also appeared in Cuban publications such as Espacio Laical and Cuba Posible.
Michael J. Bustamante, Ph.D. (Yale University, 2016), is Assistant Prof of Latin American…
Job Titles:
- Atlantic Council Fellow
- Lebanon Tour Expert
Nicholas Blanford has been a correspondent writing on Lebanon and other areas of…
Nicholas Wood first had the idea for Political Tours when he working as a correspondent with the New York Times in the Balkans. A hitch-hiker from California followed him in Serbia and Kosovo for four days while Nicholas was writing a story and was gripped by the experience. After leaving the New York Times he went on to found the travel company in 2011.
Since then he has been joined by his wife, Karen Davey, a former South African doctor, and together they have led tours in over 30 countries.
Based near Oxford in the UK, Political Tours is the only travel company in the world to specialise in news and current affairs and has been recognized for its ground breaking work with Nicholas repeatedly winning Conde Nast's top travel specialist award.
Nick Thorpe is a writer and award-winning BBC journalist, specialising in eastern Europe…
Robert Parsons has a PhD from Glasgow University on the origins of Georgian nationalism…
Job Titles:
- North Korea Tour Expert
- Professor of East Asian Economy
Tobias Jones is the author of 4 works of non-fiction, incl the bestselling The Dark Heart…
Tom Feiling spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia…
Job Titles:
- Journalist
- Northern Ireland Expert
William Graham is a political journalist based in Rostrevor, Northern Ireland…