"The Future of Iran" Our man in Tehran and Tripoli Sir Richard Dalton

Former UK Ambassador to Iran, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

Sir Richard is an associate fellow at Chatham House general in Jerusalem from 1993 to 1997. From 2006 to 2010 he worked with the Libyan British (Royal Institute for International Affairs) for the Middle Business Council as director-general. In 2008 he co- East and North Africa Programme and a consultant and In 1999 he re-established UK diplomatic relations with wrote the Chatham House Middle East programme commentator on Middle East issues. He was a British Libya, paving the way for the 2003 breakthrough on report, Iran: Breaking the Nuclear Deadlock. He chairs career diplomat from 1970 to 2006. Libya’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs). Chatham House’s round table on Libya.

Between 1991 and 1992 he was a research fellow at From 2002 to 2006, as ambassador to Iran, he played a Chatham House and published a study on security role in European negotiations with Iran, including on architecture for the Persian Gulf region. He was consul prevention of an Iranian military nuclear capability. "Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?" Britain’s leading authority on global poverty reduction Professor David Hulme

Director Global Development Institute, Prof of Development Studies University of Manchester

Professor David Hulme is the Professor of and practices so that people’s lives and livelihood are reduction strategies, finance for the poor (including Development Studies at the University of Manchester; improved. Its research spans 16 countries and it has microfinance), role of community organisations and Executive Director of the Global Development research partners in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Malawi, NGOs, environmental management and public sector Institute; and CEO of the Effective States and Inclusive Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, and USA. reform. He has particular experience in Bangladesh. Development (ESID) Research Centre, a global partnership investigating the kinds of politics that A global figure in his field, David is on the Board of the Author in 2016 of Should Rich Nations Help the Poor? promote development. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). He is a prolific author with ESID is deepening the understanding of governance in research focusing on the Millennium Development the developing world in ways that impact on policies Goals, rural development policy and planning, poverty "Why the World Will Never Be the Same Aman of action - commando, spy, politician, statesman Again and What We Should Do About It"

Lord Paddy Ashdown GCMG KBE PC

President UNICEF UK, House of Lords

After serving as a Royal Marines Officer for 13 years, Education spokesman. He was elected Leader of the then European Union Special Representative between Paddy Ashdown joined the Foreign Office in 1972 and Liberal Democrats in July 1988. Paddy stood down as 2002 and 2006. was responsible for Britain's relations with a number of the leader in 1999 and retired from the Commons in United Nations organisations. 2001, becoming a peer in the same year. His publications include: Citizens' Britain; Beyond Westminster; The Ashdown Diaries (Vols I and II); After leaving the Foreign Office he worked in Lord Ashdown was awarded the GCMG in 2006 for his Swords and Ploughshares; A Fortunate Life; A Brilliant companies in South-West England and then as a Youth work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. During this conflict he Little Operation; A Cruel Victory; and his latest book, Worker with the Dorset County Council Youth Service. was one of the leading advocates for decisive action by Game of Spies. the international community. He visited the country He entered Parliament in 1983 becoming Liberal many times during the conflict and subsequently was spokesman on Trade and Industry Affairs and later the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, eading commentator on Western policy The Owen Powell Memorial Lecture L in the Middle East "War in the Middle East: Can Britain Help?"

Professor Rosemary Hollis

Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, City University

A long-time supporter and speaker at Keele World University and while doing so to develop a greater During the 1980s she was a lecturer in Political Science Affairs, Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East understanding of each other. at George Washington University in Washington, DC, Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree where she also gained her PhD in Political Science. Scholarship Programme at City University. Her From 2005-08 she was Director of Research at the research and publications focus on British, European Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham Her publications include: Managing New and US policies in relation to the Middle East as well as House) with overall responsibility for the research and Developments in the Gulf; and Britain and the Middle conflict and security issues in the region. publications output of the institute. This followed ten East: Policy in the 9/11 Era. years as Head of its Middle East Programme, and five The Olive Tree Programme enables talented young years in a similar role at Royal United Services Institute Palestinians and Israelis to take degrees at City (RUSI). "The US Presidential Election: The Final Lifelong student of the American presidency Straight"

Dr Jon Herbert

Director of Learning/Teaching and Senior Lecturer in Politics, Keele University

Jon Herbert’s first degree was in Modern History at of Politics, Philosophy, International Relations & policy-making, presidential agendas and political Oxford, followed by a Masters in American Environment. strategy. Government and Politics at Essex University. His interest in the American Presidency really took off and The primary focus of his research continues to be the He publishes on other subjects (recently on the he completed his PhD at Sidney Sussex College, American Presidency, although he has broader conservative movement in the US and US foreign Cambridge on how presidents-elect and presidents interests in both public policy and US government as a policy). Not surprisingly, the Obama presidency and the take policy decisions. whole. He is particularly interested in how presidents fight to succeed him are currently Dr Herbert’s main choose to govern and what constrains their ability to focus. He was soon appointed to the American Studies get things done. Particularly, he works on ideas Department at Keele University and later to its School concerning the relationship between presidential "The Uses and Abuses of History: 21st Century Internationally acclaimed historian Lessons from WW1"

Professor Margaret MacMillan

Warden St Antony's College, Professor of International History, University of Oxford

Professor Margaret MacMillan, the renowned The Uses and Abuses of History; and Peacemakers: the first international relations, as encounters between international historian, has been Warden of St Antony’s Paris Conference of 1919. peoples as much as between governments and leaders, College since 2007. Previously Provost of Trinity and second the attempt to find the balance between College and Professor of History at the University of Margaret MacMillan herself writes: 'My research the great forces in history, whether social, economic, or Toronto, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of interests have taken me on a considerable journey, ideological, and the individuals who, at key moments, Literature and sits on many editorial boards. Her from the history of the British Empire to 20th century can play a part in shaping events'. Canadian nationality may help to explain her acute international relations. I have eclectic interests which insight and clear perspective of world events. Her include imperial history, social history, the history of award-winning books include: History’s People: war and society, and international history.... If there are Personality and History; The War that Ended Peace; common themes in my research and writing they are "PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Aman of the people: Britain's radical economic journalist Future"

Paul Mason

Journalist, author, former economics editor Channel 4 News, BBC Newsnight

Paul Mason is one of Britain’s best known economic year presented Spinning Yarns, a four-part series on that I am a “revolutionary Marxist”, it is completely journalists and broadcasters. He is the author of the history of the cotton industry for BBC Radio Four. inaccurate. I am a radical social democrat who favours several books, and a visiting professor at the University the creation of a peer-to-peer sector (co-ops, open of Wolverhampton. In 2012, his book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The source etc.) alongside the market and the state, as part New Global Revolutions was published. In 2013 he of a long transition to a post-capitalist economy. In 2001, he joined the BBC Two Newsnight as Business joined Channel 4 News as its culture and digital editor, There’s a comprehensive critique of Bolshevism in my Editor. His first live appearance was on the day of the later becoming Economics Editor, leaving in February latest book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future.' September 11 attacks in 2001. 2016 to resume a freelance career.

In 2007, he published Live Working or Die Fighting: 'It's fair to say I was a Leftie activist. What my politics How the Working Class Went Global and in the same are now is very complicated. As to Mr Osborne’s claim "God’s Century: Resurgent Religion Oxford expert on religious fundamentalism in world politics and Global Politics"

Professor Monica Duffy Toft

Professor of Government and Public Policy, University of Oxford

Before joining the Blavatnik School of Government in Russian linguist. In addition she has published numerous scholarly 2012, Professor Monica Duffy Toft taught at Harvard articles and editorials on civil wars, territory and University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Monica’s areas of research include international nationalism, demography, and religion in global politics. While there she directed the Initiative on Religion in security, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars and Her most recent opinion pieces are on religious International Affairs and was the assistant director of demography. Her most recent books include: Securing fundamentalism and women's equality and on the the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. She was the Peace (Princeton, 2011); Political Demography importance of identity politics for Iraq's security. educated at the University of Chicago and at the (with Jack Goldstone and Eric Kaufmann, Oxford, University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to this, 2012); and God’s Century (with Daniel Philpott and she spent four years in the United States Army as a Timothy Shah, Norton, 2012). "Who is Responsible for Global Brings new meaning to the word 'Corruption' Corruption?"

Dr Robert Barrington

Executive Director, Transparency International UK

Robert Barrington is Executive Director of the UK and became Executive Director of TI-UK in 2013. He Recent publications and projects include How to Bribe, chapter of Transparency International, the world’s was previously Director of Governance & Sustainable Adequate Procedures – Guidance to the UK Bribery leading anti-corruption organisation with chapters in Investment at F&C Asset Management, and CEO Act, Fair Play, Countering Small Bribes and Corruption over one hundred countries. He is an authority on (Europe) of the Earthwatch Institute. in the UK. global corruption, corporate bribery and corruption within the UK and is a regular commentator in the Robert regularly acts as an adviser to UK government Robert has a degree from Oxford University, where he media. departments, including membership of the Ministry of also held a three year Visiting Fellowship, and a PhD Justice’s Experts Group drafting the official guidance from the European University Institute. He joined Transparency International in 2008, leading on the Bribery Act. the campaign to secure a new Bribery Act in the UK, "Human Rights: Where Next?" Dynamic commentator on international human rights law Professor Conor Gearty

Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

Conor Gearty graduated in law from University College widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights. In 2012 he became Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Dublin before moving to Wolfson College, Cambridge Conor is also a barrister and was a founder member of Affairs and was responsible for a crowd-sourced UK in 1980 to study for a PhD. He became a fellow of Matrix chambers from where he continues to practise. Constitution, drafted in 2015 and available at Emmanuel College Cambridge in 1983 and in 1990 he constitutionuk.com. His next book On Fantasy Island. moved to the school of law at King’s College London He has been a frequent adviser to judges, practitioners Britain, Europe and Human Rights is published by OUP where he became a professor in 1995. and public authorities on the implications of the UK in 2016. Human Rights Act, and has appeared in human rights He was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human cases in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and Rights (2002-2009) and is Professor of human rights the High Court. law in the LSE Law Department. He has published "Trying to End Global Poverty: a Naïve Helping everyone live free from poverty Ambition?"

Loretta Minghella OBE

CEO, Christian Aid

As Chief Executive Officer of the £100m charity, Authority, she also chaired the International 2010. Loretta has been responsible for Christian Aid’s Organisation of Securities Commissions' Standing strategic direction, plans and programmes across the Committee on Enforcement and Information-Sharing. Loretta is a trustee of the Disasters Emergency world since joining in April 2010. Committee and of St George's House Trust (Windsor In 2004, she became Chief Executive of the Financial Castle). She is also a member of the Church of Loretta, with a BA (Hons) in Law from Cambridge is a Services Compensation Scheme, in which capacity she England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group. lawyer by training who, after practising as a criminal oversaw the payment of over £21 billion in litigator, began a career in financial regulation in 1990. compensation to victims of bank and other financial The first Head of Enforcement Law, Policy and failures. In recognition of her contribution in that role, International Cooperation for the Financial Services she was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours "Land of Coups? Thailand's Ongoing Political Troubles" The real McCoy Professor Duncan McCargo

Professor of Political Science, University of Leeds

Best known for his agenda-setting contributions to Fascinated by Asia since his undergraduate days, written commentaries for the Daily Telegraph, The current debates on the politics of Thailand, Professor Duncan spent several years in Thailand, also lived in Economist, Foreign Affairs, , The Duncan McCargo’s work is centrally concerned with Singapore, taught in Cambodia and Japan, and Independent, New York Times, Time and Financial the nature of power. How do entrenched elites seek to published on Indonesia and Vietnam. Times. He often briefs senior UN and government retain power in the face of challenges from new officials, and has twice testified (in Thai) before political forces? How do challengers to state power try He changes research topics regularly and is committed parliamentary committees in Bangkok. Duncan is also to undermine the legitimacy of existing regimes? These to doing serious fieldwork. Time magazine wrote of his an Associate Fellow at Chatham House in London. interests have led him to study questions relating to work, 'No armchairs for this author… McCargo is the the uses of media, sub-national conflicts, and the real McCoy'. politics of justice, among other issues. He appears regularly on BBC radio and television, have "Britain's Military Interventions: Lessons from Spotlights Britain’s modern wars the Falklands and Iraq"

Dr Helen Parr

Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University

Helen Parr studied History at Clare College, French relations, and British nuclear weapons policy. Her 2006 book Britain's Policy Towards the European Cambridge, and Contemporary British History at She recently presented her work to policy makers at Community examines Harold Wilson’s apparent volte- Queen Mary College, University of London, staying at the Mile End Institute’s Britain and Europe: Lessons face on European Community membership in the Queen Mary for her PhD (with Lord Peter Hennessy), from History. autumn of 1966 (which has long puzzled commentators and then became a Tutorial Fellow in International and Wilson’s colleagues alike) and provides a fresh History at LSE before coming to Keele. Helen is currently working on a social and cultural interpretation of Wilson’s policy towards the EC. history of the Parachute Regiment and the 1982 Her research is on post-1945 British history, Falklands conflict and this will be published by Penguin particularly Britain’s relations with Europe, British- in 2018. "Does the UK have a Future as a Expert on the UK’s manufacturing potential Manufacturing Nation?"

Professor David Bailey

Professor of Industry, Aston University

Professor David Bailey, an influential business expert Most recently, David has undertaken European funded Committee on the West Midlands region, presenting to on economic restructuring and industrial policy is research on using foreign investment to upgrade a number of select committees and All Party perhaps best known for his knowledge of UK and West clusters, and on industrial and regional policy and the Parliamentary Groups. Midlands car manufacturing. rise of ‘phoenix’ industries such as the low carbon vehicles cluster in the West Midlands. He has also been a Non-Executive Director at As an author, regular media commentator and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation newspaper columnist, he has provided articles and He has also worked on developing a framework to assist Trust from 2006-2013. commentary on key economic and regional policy Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) in responding to issues including the closure and eventual reopening of economic ‘shocks’ and restructuring. He has twice the MG Rover car plant in Birmingham, UK, and the chaired the Regional Studies Association, and has acted Jaguar Land Rover economic success story. as a Special Advisor to the House of Commons Select "In Search of the Perfect Health System: An inspiring global vision for healthcare International Lessons"

Dr Mark Britnell

Chairman of Global Health Practice, KPMG

Mark is Chairman and Partner of the Global Health around the world. also ran the NHS from Oxford to the Isle of Wight Practice at KPMG. Since 2009, he has worked in over before joining the NHS Management Board as a 60 countries, helping governments, public and private Mark has dedicated his professional life to healthcare Director-General. He developed High Quality Care for sector organizations with operations, strategy and and has led organizations at local, regional, national and All with Lord Darzi and published his first book In policy. He has a pioneering and inspiring global vision global levels. He was CEO of high-performing Search of the Perfect Health System in October 2015. for healthcare in both the developed and developing University Hospitals in Birmingham and master- world and has written extensively on what works minded the largest new hospital build in the NHS. He "Russia's Place in the World" Leading commentator on Russia Mary Dejevsky

Chief Editorial Writer,

Mary Dejevsky writes on international affairs, the EU, Moscow bureau chief and correspondent in the period to meet Russian leaders each autumn, and a member of the US, also on UK politics and society and is one of the 1988-1992 (during perestroika). the Chatham House think-tank. country’s most respected commentators on Russia, the EU and the US. She is now the chief editorial writer and a columnist at She is a past honorary research fellow at the University The Independent, a columnist at The Guardian, and of Buckingham and contributed the introductory essay Mary has worked as a foreign correspondent all over regularly appears on radio and television. to The Britannica Guide to Russia. the world, including Washington, Paris and Moscow. She was The Times leader writer on foreign affairs, She is a member of the Valdai Group, invited since 2004 "The Future of India: And Where Next?" Britain's leading analyst of Indian democracy Professor Sunil Khilnani

Avantha Professor and Director, India Institute, King's College London

Sunil Khilnani joined the Institute as its Director and and Europe. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of Professor of Politics in June 2011. His research Cambridge, where he took a first in Social and Political London. interests lie at the intersection of various fields: Sciences, and at King’s College, Cambridge, where he intellectual history and the study of political thought, gained his PhD. He is completing a book on India’s global role and the history of modern India, democratic theory in prospects, while he continues to research studies of relation to its recent non-Western experiences, the From 2001 to 2011, he was the Starr Foundation Jawaharlal Nehru and the history of democracy in India politics of contemporary India, and strategic thought in Professor at the Johns Hopkins University’s School of – two of his long-term projects. the definition of India’s place in the world. Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington DC, and Director of South Asia Studies at SAIS, a He was born in New Delhi and grew up in India, Africa, programme that he established in 2002. Earlier, he was "GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History" Arare breed bringing enlightenment to economics Professor Diane Coyle OBE

Professor of Economics, Manchester University

Diane Coyle is Professor of Economics at the University Environment. (2001), Governing the World Economy (2000) and The of Manchester in addition to running Enlightenment Weightless World (1997). Economics. She is a Fellow of the Office for National She specialises in competition analysis and the Statistics and a Member of the Natural Capital economics of new technologies and globalisation; She was formerly a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s Committee. She was Vice-Chair of the BBC Trust until Diane is also a member of the stakeholder advisory Analysis. She was previously Economics Editor of The April 2015, a member of the Migration Advisory panel of EDF Energy. Independent and before that worked at the Treasury Committee from 2007-2012, and a member of the and in the private sector as an economist. She has a She is the author of a number of books, including GDP: Competition Commission from 2001-2009. She is also PhD from Harvard. A Brief But Affectionate History (2014), The Economics a visiting research associate at the University of of Enough (2011); The Soulful Science (2007), Sex, Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Drugs and Economics (2002), Paradoxes of Prosperity "Happiness Around the World: An Our guide to understanding happiness Introduction to the Scientific Evidence"

Professor Andrew Oswald

Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Andrew Oswald is a Professor of Economics at the Wertheim Fellow, Harvard University (2005); Visiting The final theme - the economics of happiness - was University of Warwick. His work lies mainly at the Fellow, Cornell University (2008); and Research probably considered by economists the most unusual border between economics and behavioural science, Director, IZA Bonn (2011-12) where he was a Visiting work of all (insofar as anyone paid attention) in the and includes the empirical study of human happiness. Fellow. early 1990s when the work began. It suggested ways to He serves on the board of editors of Science. estimate 'happiness' and job-satisfaction regression In his academic career Andrew has worked on seven equations. Today the area is one of the fastest growing He was previously at Oxford and the London School of main areas: trade unions, labour contracts, the wage within social science. Economics, with spells as Lecturer, Princeton curve, entrepreneurship, home ownership and University (1983-4); De Walt Ankeny Professor of unemployment, the consequences of high oil prices, Economics, Dartmouth College (1989-91); Jacob and the economics of happiness and mental health. "Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes: Can Brings insight into peacebuilding in Africa Africans Build Better Lives?"

Dr Devon Curtis

Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge

Devon Curtis is a University Lecturer in the region of Africa, especially Burundi, Rwanda and the security; power-sharing; international intervention; Department of Politics and International Studies at the Democratic Republic of the Congo. peacebuilding and conflict resolution; transitional University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel governance; post-conflict ‘reconstruction’ and College. Her main research interests and publications Previously, Devon worked for the Canadian development; humanitarianism; rebel movements in deal with power-sharing and governance arrangements government and the United Nations Staff College, and Africa; the United Nations; the African Union; and following conflict, rebel movements in Africa, the she has been a consultant for the UK Department for contemporary politics in the Great Lakes region of United Nations, and critical perspectives on conflict, International Development and for the Overseas Africa. peacebuilding and development. Development Institute.

Her field research concentrates on the Great Lakes Her research interests therefore include: peace and "Britain and the EU: The Referendum An expert view of Britain’s conflicted relations with the EU and Beyond"

Professor Anand Menon

Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, King's College London

Before joining King's College, Anand was Professor of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the journal development, workings and impact of the Common West European Politics, and founding Director of the West European Politics. Security and Defence Policy using institutionalist European Research Institute at the University of analytical tools developed to explain American political Birmingham. Prior to that he was University Lecturer in Anand has recently been appointed to head the major development. In addition, he is writing a shorter book European Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, new ESRC project The UK in a Changing Europe. He on Europe’s place in a changing world intended to Oxford. will act as Director for the initiative which will contribute to debates on the changing international investigate the relationship between the UK and the order. He has held visiting positions at New York University, EU. Columbia University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, amongst others. He is an associate fellow of He is also carrying out an ESRC-funded research Chatham House and Senior Associate member of project on EU security policies. The aim is to explain the eading authority on the complex phenomenon "Saudi Arabia: Challenges in the 21st Lof Saudi Arabia Century"

Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed

Visiting Professor, Middle East Centre at LSE

Saudi-born Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at conducting research on mutations among Saudi international television and print media, for example the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at Islamists after the 2011 Arab Uprisings. This research The Guardian, appearing on Newshour (BBC), Radio 4 the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of focuses on new reinterpretations of Islamic texts (Documentary on Saudi Arabia: Sand of Time), CNN, Anthropology of Religion at King’s College, London, for prevalent among a small minority of Saudi reformers, BBC World Service, CCTV, and al-Hura Arabic 20 years and previously Prize Research Fellow at and activism in pursuit of democratic governance and television. Nuffield College, Oxford. She also taught at Goldsmith civil society. College and at the Institute of Social and Cultural Her best known book is A Most Masculine State: Anthropology, University of Oxford. She has published articles on Saudi Arabia’s political Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia. development since the Arab uprisings, gender policies, Since joining the MEC, Madawi Al-Rasheed has been and current affairs. She regularly contributes to Science in Society Explorer of the frontiers of human biology "Exploring Human Variation: The Future of the Genome"

Professor Dame Janet Thornton DBE FRS

Director Emeritus, European Bioinformatics Institute

Professor Dame Janet Thornton was Director of EMBL- It manages the world’s public biological data, makes it Birkbeck College. EBI from October 2001 to June 2015, and has played a freely available to the scientific community, and key role in ELIXIR, the pan-European infrastructure for provides professional training in bioinformatics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the biological data, since its inception. Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of the Janet’s research group focuses on understanding European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) and EMBL-EBI is part of the European Molecular Biology protein structure, function and evolution using a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Laboratory (EMBL), an inter-governmental computational approaches. After a physics degree, she Sciences. organisation with 21 member states and two associate completed her PhD at the UK NIMR before member states. Its aim is to help scientists realise the postdoctoral studies at Oxford. She then held a joint potential of ‘big data’ in biology, and to exploit complex appointment at University College London and the information to make discoveries that benefit mankind. Bernal Chair in the Crystallography Department at "From Empire to Republic: China's Struggle with One of our great China-watchers Modernity?"

Isabel Hilton OBE

Journalist, writer, China expert, Editor of Chinadialogue

Isabel Hilton, a journalist and broadcaster, was moving to The Independent in 1986 and The Guardian Isabel is the founder and editor of Chinadialogue, an educated at Edinburgh University where she studied in 1997, where she continues to contribute a regular independent organisation dedicated to promoting a Chinese to postgraduate level. She is widely regarded column on a wide range of China issues. common understanding of China’s urgent as an outstanding commentator on the social, political, environmental challenges in a lively, convincing and and economic features of Chinese society, and is a She presented The World Tonight from 1995 to 1998 multi-lingual fashion. Its hope in doing so is to frequent conference speaker. on BBC Radio 4, and from 1999 has presented encourage movement closer to viable, equitable and Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3. From 2005 to 2007 she real solutions to environmental problems. She became a feature writer for the , then was editor and then editor-in-chief of the Latin American affairs editor at , openDemocracy.net website.