About us

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 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 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. As well as editing Global Dashboard, David is a Demos Associate and is on the advisory board of JLT’s World Risk Review.

David and Alex are currently running a Demos project entitled The New Diplomacy, through which they will publish a pamphlet in 2009. They have recently completed a project 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 a Senior Researcher and Head of the Security Programme at the think tank Demos.

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 currently lives in Nepal. 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.