[5] Munthe began his career with IBTauris, while writing for the British and US press on Middle East politics.
[9] He then launched The Beirut Review, a cultural magazine published with the Daily Star under Rami Khouri,[10] before returning to London as Head of the Middle East Programme at the Royal United Services Institute.
[13] Munthe joined Marcus Brauchli and Sasa Vucinic’s North Base Media as a Venture Partner in 2015,[14][citation needed] before founding Parlia in 2019.
[citation needed] In 2015, he co-curated the Global Art Forum[15] with Sultan al-Qassemi and Shumon Basar.
[17][18] He sits on the boards of openDemocracy, The New Humanitarian[19] and The Signals Network,[20] and has been a trustee of Index on Censorship and The Bureau for Investigative Journalism.