Turi Munthe is a journalist and policy analyst turned media entrepreneur and writer. He is the author of Why We Think What We Think (Penguin, 2026), which explores the unexpected origins of our deepest beliefs.

As a journalist and Middle East policy analyst, Turi has written for the Economist, Guardian, TLS, THES, the Nation, Spectator, and many others. He has appeared on the BBC, Fox, CNN, al-Jazeera, NBC and others, and given lectures at universities all over the world - Oxford, Sciences Politiques Paris, CUNY, and elsewhere. He has also advised governments across Europe and the Middle East.

As an entrepreneur, he founded Demotix, which became the largest network of photojournalists in the world and sold to Bill Gates’ Corbis Corporation in 2012. In 2019, Turi founded Parlia, an encyclopaedia of opinion. Parlia developed the Opinion DNA - a questionnaire designed in collaboration with top academic psychologists to help users understand the fundamental drivers of their own beliefs.

As an investor, Turi has supported startups in the media and media-tech space since the mid-2010s, both as an angel and as a partner in North Base Media, the leading media-focused early stage investment firm.

Turi also advises media and media-adjacent companies and non-profits, particularly as they relate to pluralism and freedom of speech. He has sat on the boards of Index on Censorship, OpenDemocracy, the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, The Signals Network (supporting whistleblowers) and Larger Us (which works to combat polarisation). He is a board member of one of Italy's largest media companies, GEDI, publisher of La Repubblica and La Stampa and host of radio stations, and a board member of Mill Media, one of the UK’s most innovative new journalism companies.

Turi studied Arabic and History at St. John’s College, Oxford; Hebrew at the Hebrew, University of Jerusalem; and abandoned a PhD at NYU in Anthropology of Religion to start his first business. He lives with his Italian wife and their two children between Milan and London.