Ciaran Thapar

Ciaran Thapar is a youth worker, communications professional and nonfiction author based in London. He has experience as an educator in schools, youth clubs, charities and prisons, and is Director of Public Affairs and Communications at the Youth Endowment Fund. Ciaran is a regular contributor to publications such as British GQ and the Guardian, and he writes a Substack newsletter about justice, culture and social change called All City.

His debut book, Cut Short: Why We’re Failing Our Youth and How to Fix It was published by Penguin (Viking) UK in June 2021. He is currently working on his second, a memoir about the legacy of the Partition of Punjab in London.