About us


Global Dashboard is edited by Alex Evans and David Steven.

Alex Evans is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, where he runs CIC’s work on climate change and global public goods. He was seconded to the UN in 2007 as part of the team coordinating the Secretary-General’s high level event on climate change. He is also leading a joint CIC - Chatham House project on the international implications of rising food prices. From 2003 to 2006, Alex was Special Adviser to Hilary Benn, then the UK Secretary of State for International Development.

David Steven is a policy analyst, strategic consultant and researcher. He is Managing Director of River Path Associates where he specialises in international responses to global risks, the development of communications and influencing strategies, and intercultural dialogue. David’s research on international development has been published by journals such as Science and World Economics. His paper on Foreign Office reform was published in September 2007 by Manchester University Press as part of its Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review.

David and Alex are currently running a Demos project entitled The New Public Diplomacy, through which they will publish a pamphlet later in the spring, and are developing a new project on the resilience of international systems. Joint publications include Climate Change: the state of the debate, published by the London Accord; and Fixing the UK’s Foreign Policy Apparatus: A Memo to Gordon Brown. In April 2008, they were commissioned by 10 Downing Street to present a paper on multilateralism and global risks to heads of state at the Progressive Governance Summit.

Contributors

Charlie Edwards is head of the security programme at Demos.  He is the author of National Security for the Twenty-first century (Demos 2007); The case for a national security strategy (Demos 2007); The Business of Resilience: Corporate Security  for the 21st century (Demos 2006), Closing the Gap: Creating a shared vision of security sector reform (Demos 2006), and A Force for Change: Policing 2020 (Demos 2006).

Jules Evans was until recently the Times business journalist in Russia, and also frequently contributes to The Spectator, Euromoney, Foreign Policy and other titles, mainly writing about Russia and the CIS. He is a consultant for the Eurasia Group and a columnist for the Eurasia Heritage Foundation. He is writing a book called ‘The Wild Man: A Cultural History of Social Anxiety’. His web-site can be found here.

Richard Gowan coordinates the International Security Institutions program at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University. He is also the UN Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Center (London).

Daniel Korski is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yemen as well as in the United States. He is also a Senior Advisor to the Project on National Security Forum.

Elizabeth Sellwood currently lives in Jerusalem. She has worked most recently for the United Nations in the Middle East, and previously worked for the British parliament, Oxfam, and think tanks in New York and London.

Mark Weston is a policy consultant, writer and researcher, specialising in international development. His clients include the Harvard School of Public Health, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, London School of Economics and a number of developing world NGOs. He is currently researching a travel book on West Africa.