Welcome to the official personal website of Christopher (Chris) Deliso. I’m an American travel writer, journalist, author and consultant who has traveled and lived in the Balkans and Mediterranean Europe for over a decade.

This, the chrisdeliso.com website provides a single source of official, accurate and regularly updated factual information regarding my past, present and upcoming publications, activities, author events and other public appearances.

I first encountered this fascinating region through in-depth advanced education at Oxford University, where I achieved an MPhil with Distinction in Byzantine Studies in 1999. After a lengthy foray in Istanbul, followed by a sojourn on Mt Athos, I spent a year on the incomparable Greek island of Crete.

Since 2002, however, I have been based in Skopje, Macedonia, along the way spending extended periods of time in pursuit of research, danger and adventure in neighboring countries such as Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo.

While stationed in the Balkans, I have written on topics such as travel, politics, security and business for some of the world’s largest media groups. I also provide training seminars and lectures on topics related to education, promotional skills and public relations.

In addition to my writing and speaking, I am the founder and director of  Balkanalysis.com, which since 2003 has become one of the leading independent sources of news and objective analysis on the region. The website (read more about Balkanalysis.com here) is read by a range of individuals with a professional interest in the region, including political analysts, parliamentarians, researchers, investors, NGO types and representatives of murky government agencies. Our articles, written by numerous informed authors from Western and regional countries, have been cited in media ranging from local newspapers to the New York Times.

Similarly, my opinions and advice on certain matters having consequences for the region are frequently sought out, both publicly and privately, by an intriguing variety of interested parties. I have been interviewed in a variety of media on a similar range of topics, including travel-related commentary for the Guardian & Observer, Forbes, and Travel Intelligence.  (The full list of media citations and interviews in various languages is found on the Media Citations, References & Interviews page).

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Note: the cartographical header banner on this website is a detail from Johann Baptist Homann’s Danube in Southeast Europe map (c. 1720). The choice of this map content does not have any sort of political or historic implications; it’s just a pretty picture that puts emphasis on my usual area of coverage and interests.

Best wishes,

Chris