Carne Ross: The Independent Diplomat
Hear the incredible story of how and why this former British senior diplomat and founder of the Independent Diplomat is reinventing diplomacy for the 21st century.
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BIF-5 Summit
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20:34
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Carne Ross
Carne Ross is a former senior British diplomat who served on the British delegation to the UN Security Council as the UK's "expert on Iraq, including weapons inspections and sanctions. He resigned after giving then-secret testimony to an official inquiry into the use of intelligence on Iraq's WMD. The rupture of his career over Iraq made him realize that much of his time as a foreign service diplomat gave little thought to the people he was trying to affect. He now runs the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, which works on diplomatic issues affecting marginalized countries and groups around the world. His book, Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite, provides a compelling account of what's wrong with contemporary diplomacy and offers a new vision of how it might be put right.
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