Vic Sutton is a British journalist with long experience of ways to use information and communication technologies to promote economic and social development goals. He has worked with print, television, radio and on-line media and speaks fluent French, Italian and Spanish.

Born in China to missionary parents, Vic spent four years of his childhood in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

After completing his grammar school education in Britain, and before going to university, he spent a year at the College Alfred Saker in Douala, Cameroon as a volunteer teacher, giving lessons in English as a foreign language.

He then studied at Pembroke College, Oxford where he won a first-class honors degree in English language and literature.

While studying for his degree he also worked on a voluntary basis for the student-based educational and fundraising campaign then known as Third World First. After graduating he joined the organization to work full-time, to manage the work of the campaign in its third year, in Oxford, England. He headed a small team that increased the number of student donors to development charities from 20 000 to 30 000, and helped launch ‘The Internationalist’ as a free termly magazine to inform British students about development issues.

From there he joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, returning to London, England in 1976 to head the World Development Movement, a political lobby on North-South issues first set up by the British churches.

In 1979 he joined the international news agency IPS – Inter Press Service in Rome, Italy. Vic worked for nearly 20 years for IPS, first as journalist and editor, then as project manager, helping to build the IPS reporting and news distribution network in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. He also managed IPS fundraising and relations with the donor community.

More recently Vic spent five years making television programs for broadcast in southern Africa, from a base in Johannesburg, South Africa. 

Early in 2005 Vic relocated to Washington, DC where he is currently conducting research on the impact of new developments in technology on the digital divide.

 You may contact Vic Sutton directly via email: vsutton@hotmail.co.uk