Welcome to the official personal website of Christopher (Chris) Deliso. The website comprises the single source of official, accurate and regularly updated factual information regarding my publications, activities, author events and most of my other public appearances.

I am a travel writer, journalist, author, editor and consultant originally from the United States and have been involved with the Balkans and Mediterranean Europe since 1997.

In 1999, I received an MPhil with Distinction in Byzantine Studies from Oxford University, and thereafter spent extended periods of time in Istanbul, at the monasteries of Mt Athos, and subsequently a year on the incomparable Greek island of Crete.

Based in Skopje since 2002, my travels and research assignments have involved forays long and short into all neighboring countries, as well as to places further afield, such as Turkey, Georgia, Hungary, Croatia and Montenegro.

While stationed in the Balkans, I have written extensively on topics such as travel, politics, counter-terrorism and business affairs for some of the world’s largest media groups. I have made public presentations on such topics at international conferences, as well as private briefings for U.S. security agencies.

I am also 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 mostly by those with a professional interest in the region, including political analysts, parliamentarians and congressional officials, academic researchers and journalists, foreign investors, NGO figures, various intelligence agencies, defense ministries and so on. Our articles, written by informed authors from Western and regional countries, have been cited in media ranging from local newspapers to the New York Times.

I have been interviewed by a variety of publications 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