Mark Thompson edits the Open Society Foundations website www.mediapolicy.org and research reports produced by the Media Program. He has worked as a consultant for various and governmental organizations and NGOs.
He has also been a political officer for a United Nations peacekeeping mission and spokesman of an OSCE mission, as well as a journalist, historian, and translator. Publications include Forging War (1999), Forging Peace (2002, with Monroe Price), and The White War (2008).