Paul Vallely CMG is a British writer on religion, ethics, Africa and development issues.
In his seminal 1990 book Bad Samaritans: First World Ethics and Third World Debt, he first coined the phrase that campaigners needed to move "from charity to justice" – a slogan that was taken up by Jubilee 2000 and Live 8.
He is now a writer and consultant on ethics, religion and international development.
He is Visiting Professor in Public Ethics at the University of Chester and a Senior Fellow at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.
He is a Canon of Manchester Cathedral.
He writes regularly in the New York Times, The Guardian and The Church Times.
His biography Pope Francis - Untying the Knots, published by Bloomsbury in 2013, has been translated into four other languages.
It was greatly expanded in 2015, with nine additional chapters on the inner workings of the current papacy, as Pope Francis: The Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism.