Christopher J. Finlay is a PhD Candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned a BA (Political Science) from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and an MA (Political Science) from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. He is currently a research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford.

Chris' dissertation examines how the Olympic Games are used as a political tool by Games organizers, nation-states, sponsors, and local and global activists in order to build or strengthen their particular agendas. Recently, Chris worked on "Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China", edited by Monroe Price and Daniel Dayan. His contributions to this publication include a concluding chapter, “Towards the Future: London and Beyond” and “New Technologies, New Narratives”, co-written with Lee Humphreys. Chris is also a staff writer for "Culture @ the Olympics", an online research magazine edited by Dr. Beatriz Garcia and Dr. Andy Miah.

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