Paul Kelly is editor-at-large of The Australian. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of The Australian. He writes on Australian and international issues and is a regular commentator on ABC television.

Paul holds a Doctor of Letters from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He has honorary doctorates from the University of New South Wales and from Griffith University, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He has been a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University and a visiting lecturer at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard.

Paul has covered Australian governments from Whitlam to Howard and is the author of six successful boks on Australian politics, including the critically acclaimed End of Certainty. He has written and presented extensively on Australian history, was Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year (1990), and a double Walkley award winner for excellence in 2001.