Carne RossCarne Ross is Founder and Executive Director of Independent Diplomat, an innovative venture in the world of international relations that that advises nations and political movements across the three pillars of contemporary diplomacy: political and dilomatic strategy, international law and public diplomacy. He previously served in the British Foreign Office for more than fifteen years. Between 1997 and 1998, he was speechwriter to the British Foreign Secretary. He then spent four and a half years in the UK delegation on the UN Security Council, where he was the UK delegation's Middle East expert, holding the rank of First Secretary, and later served as Strategy Coordinator for the UN in Kosovo (UNMIK), advising the Secretary-General's Special Representative on diplomatic and political tactics. In 2005, he was named by Britain's Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust as one of its seven "visionaries for a just and peaceful world." Read More Read Less