Jake Lynch is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney, splitting his time between Australia and Oxford. He is the author of three Oxford-based mystery thrillers.

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Before entering academia, Jake spent 20 years in journalism, working as a Political Correspondent for Sky News at Westminster and as the Sydney Correspondent for The Independent, before becoming an on-air presenter for BBC World TV News. His contributions to the field of Peace Journalism—through research, teaching, and training—earned him the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, awarded by the Schengen Peace Foundation.

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Jake appeared as King of France in the Oxford Theatre Guild production of a Shakespeare comedy, All’s Well That Ends Well, in the Oxford University Parks. He narrated the audio recording of Blood on the Stone, his own historical mystery thriller set in Restoration England.