Olof Ulric Christian Palme (born 15 July 1952 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish communications expert, journalist and writer.

When the UN Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 1993 in The Hague, Palme was one of the first journalists to understand its significance.

[5] He later followed up the discussion of war crimes in the Balkans with the documentary film Peace Without Justice[6] (with Bengt Nilsson, produced and financed by Swedish public service TV Sveriges Television (2003)).

In 2004 Christian Palme left Dagens Nyheter to become Public Information Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.

In 2007 he returned to Sweden and after a spell as project manager with a private communications agency he was appointed Media and Communications Adviser with the Nordic Africa Institute, a government thinktank and centre of excellence for research on modern Africa, based in Uppsala, Sweden.