Global Dashboard explores global risks and international affairs, bringing together authors who work on foreign policy in think tanks, government, academia and the media. It was set up in 2007 and is edited from the UK by Alex Evans and David Steven.
Global Dashboard encourages debate and feedback – through comments on recent posts or by email to either David or Alex.
Editors
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, resource scarcity 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 has recently completed 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 a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, where he works with Alex on CIC’s work on climate change and global public goods. David is also a Director of River Path Associates where he specialises in international responses to global risks, the development of communications and influencing strategies, and intercultural dialogue. As well as editing Global Dashboard, David is on the advisory board of JLT’s World Risk Review.
David and Alex are currently co-authoring a Brookings Institution paper on improving multilateral management of global risks, in a project funded by the UK Foreign Office. They also recently completed a report for the UK Department for International Development on multilateral reform and climate change. Previous 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.
Authors
Charlie Edwards is Head of the Security Programme at the think tank Demos. He is currently on secondment to the Home Office.
Jules Evans is the editor of EMEA Finance magazine, which covers finance in eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also writes on psychology and philosophy on his blog, The Politics of Wellbeing, and writes the newsletter for the Stoic Registry
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).
Leo Horn is National Coordinator for the UK-China Sustainable Development Dialogue, a high-level cross-governmental partnership initiated by Premier Wen Jiabao and PM Tony Blair in 2004. He is also co-founder and vice-chairman of the China Carbon Forum, a professional association for organisations engaged in emissions reduction in China. He has also worked in China as an environmental economist for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank.
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 is non-resident fellow at the Center on International Cooperation. She is based in Beirut, Lebanon, and has worked for several years in the Middle East region. She was Special Assistant to the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process from 2005-07, and prior to this she worked for the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory. Between 2001-03 Elizabeth was an adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee in the UK House of Commons. She also worked for Oxfam in the Balkans in the aftermath of the Kosovo war, and in 1995-99 held research positions at Chatham House and Cambridge University
Alanna Shaikh is a global health specialist with a decade of experience in the Middle East and Central Asia. She blogs on global health for Change.org, and on international development at Blood and Milk. She has worked for NGOs, companies, the US government, and the UN. She’s currently resident in Tajikistan, working for a health sector reform project.
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.
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