Associate Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme

Expertise

• Geopolitical, economic, strategic and security implications of large-scale environmental change
• How climate change might change borders and/or completely extinguish countries
• How climate change might alter global transportation systems and what that could mean economically and geostrategically
• New challenges to energy security
• Identification of nations/regions where environmental change is most likely to trigger conflict
• Military implications of environmental change
• Economic, political and social issues in the world's smallest countries and dependencies (including Monaco, Liechtenstein, Andorran, San Marino, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Maldives, Seychelles, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Tonga, Nauru, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and others).

Projects

• Studies with Chatham House on how environmental change could have major boundary, economic and security implications for Asia, the Pacific, the Arctic and elsewhere.
• Book, Global Warring, on the geopolitical implications of large-scale environmental change, to be published shortly.
• Working with Manipal University, India, to incorporate environmental change-related awareness, research and innovation throughout all the university's departments, including Management, Engineering, Bio-Tech, Architecture, Medical and Communications.

Recent Publications

• How climate change is pushing the boundaries of security and foreign policy, Chatham House Briefing Paper, June 2007

Recent Articles

• Nationalistic Capitalism and The Food Crisis (China approach to international trade and food security), China Dialogue, June 3, 2008.
• Carbonating India (the global carbon system and India), Hard News, March, 2008.
• Three R's for Surviving Environmental Change (method for assessing, and shoring up, vulnerabilities), China Dialogue, January 18, 2008.
• The Changing Security Climate - Part Three (part three - Arctic/transportation issues), China Dialogue, August 27, 2007.
• The Changing Security Climate - Part Two (part two - climate change and maritime borders), China Dialogue, August 24, 2007.
• The Changing Security Climate - Part One (part one - global security and underlying issues), China Dialogue, August 23, 2007.
• The Changing Security Climate (environmental change and security risks), Hard News, June 2007
• Hurricane Titanic (Climate change policy options for India), Hard News, December 2006.
• Dire Warnings (How climate change could affect geopolitics in India), Hard News, June 2006.
• India Roars, Canada Snores (on the Indo-Canadian relationship), Barricades, Spring 2006.
• India's Matchmaker (Behind the scenes in India Geopolitics), Maclean's, March 2005.

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Experience

Awards

Over fifteen awards for journalism including being the only person to have won the Grand Prize from the North American Travel Journalists Association twice. Also wrote a 13-part Emmy-winning tv documentary series.

Broadcast Experience

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