Peter Apps is an experienced foreign correspondent and global affairs commentator for Reuters news agency as well as founder and executive director of pop-up think tank the Project for Study of the 21st Century. Since 2016, he has been an officer in the British Army Reserve, called up full-time to provide advice and analysis on geopolitics and international messaging during the the Covid-19 pandemic.

A wheelchair user largely paralysed from the shoulders down following a war zone car crash during the Sri Lanka Civil War, he is also the author of two bestselling Kindle Singles: “Before Ebola”, uncovering haemorrhagic fever in Angola, and “Churchill in the Trenches”.