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 and David are both senior fellows at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC), where they lead CIC’s work on resource scarcity and climate change. Their most recent report, on making the Rio 2012 summit work, is here. They are both also closely involved in setting up a new Brookings Institution programme on the geopolitics of scarcity.
David and Alex work extensively on wider foreign policy issues as well, where their joint publications include a Chatham House report on the future of Britain’s foreign policy and a Brookings Institution paper on ‘the long crisis of globalisation’. All of their publications are available on Global Dashboard here.
In addition, Alex and David undertake consultancy projects for external clients, both jointly (where their clients have included the UN Secretary-General’s office, the US government and the UK Foreign Office), and individually (David is a Director of River Path Associates and is currently advising the UK Department for International Development in Pakistan, while Alex has recently worked with clients including Oxfam and ActionAid).
Authors
Alistair Burnett is the Editor of BBC News’ The World Tonight programme. Alistair has worked on many of the BBC’ leading programmes – after beginning his BBC career at World Service, he spent three years at the The World Tonight in the mid 1990s, before moving to the Today programme for a couple of years and then back to the World Service where he became Editor of Newshour, Europe Today and World Update.
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 a freelance journalist and writer, who covers two main areas: philosophy and psychology (for publications including The Times, Psychologies, New Statesman and his website Philosophy for Life, and emerging markets (for publications including The Spectator, Economist, Times, Euromoney and Financial News).
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 – Phathanothai currently serves as Director for International Cooperation at the World Resources Institute (WRI). Prior to that he had worked in UNDP, the World Bank and DfID. He worked for six years in China where, from 2006-2009 he led a pioneering cross-governmental partnership between the UK and China on sustainable development, initiated by Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Wen Jiabao, and involving 17 government ministries/agencies. In parallel, he co-founded the China Carbon Forum and led it to become a thriving professional association serving as the key interface between the business community and senior Chinese government decision-makers on climate policy reform issues. Leo writes here in a personal capacity and his views do not necessarily reflect those of WRI.
Arjan van Houwelingen is a policy consultant and occasional researcher and writer, focusing on issues related to peace, politics and development. In the 90s he spend most of his time in Central and Eastern Europe researching aid effectiveness for organisations such as the EU, OECD, World Bank and USAID. Subsequently, he joined the UN where he worked on UN reform and the Middle East peace process. Currently, Arjan is based in the UK and, from time-to-time, the Netherlands.
Seth Kaplan is a writer and policy consultant focusing on fragile states, governance, and development. He is the author of Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development (Praeger Security International, 2008) and a forthcoming book on poverty and state governance. A Wharton MBA and Palmer scholar, Seth has worked for several large multinationals and founded four companies. He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. He lives in New York City.
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.
Casper ter Kuile is the Co-Founder of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and a campaign consultant. He has worked for Avaaz.org, 38 Degrees and Futerra Sustainability Communications. He writes more about civil society, movement strategy and other delights on his own blog.
Claire Melamed is Head of the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at the Overseas Development Institute(ODI). The programme does research and policy analysis on how economic growth can be more effective in reducing poverty and inequality. She has worked for the UN in Mozambique, taught at SOAS and the Open University, and worked for ten years in NGOs including ActionAid and Christian Aid.
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
Andy Sumner is Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Global Development, Washington, DC. He is a cross-disciplinary Development Economist, with research interests in the fields of global poverty, growth and inequality, and development. His primary regional interest is in Southeast Asia. In 2011 he was listed in Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers for his work on the changing distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries and the ‘new bottom billion’.
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 writing a travel book on West Africa.
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