TOR053: Independent Diplomat with Carne Ross

Carne Ross is the founder and Executive Director of Independent Diplomat. Carne served as a British diplomat from 1989-2004 in a number of different roles, including speechwriter to the Foreign Secretary.  From 1998, he was the UK’s Middle East expert at the United Nations in New York.  In 2004, he resigned from the UK Foreign Office after giving then-secret evidence to the first official inquiry into the Iraq war.

Carne is also an author of two books, most recently “The Leaderless Revolution: how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21st Century” and “Independent Diplomat”, a critique of contemporary diplomacy.  Carne is a frequent commentator on international affairs on the BBC and Al Jazeera, and in publications including the Financial Times and The Guardian.