Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map

DateMonday, 14 June 2010
LocationStimson Center

Cleo Paskal is an Associate Fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. She is also Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India, and Adjunct Professor of Global Change, School of Communications and Management Studies, Kochi, India. She has guest lectured at universities on most continents, including Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. She has consulted for a wide range of stakeholders including the U.S. Department of Energy, OSCE, UK Ministry of Defence, EU, and NATO, and has briefed high-ranking government officials from several countries on specific scenarios they might face in the coming years. She is also an award-winning journalist who has contributed to, among others, The Economist, The Telegraph, The Independent, and the Sunday Times. She has hosted BBC radio shows and wrote an Emmy-winning documentary TV series. 

 

David Michel is Senior Associate at the Stimson Center and Director of the Environmental Security Project.  He co-edited Coastal Zones and Climate Change. He previously served as Senior Associate at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he specialized in international climate policy. Educated at Yale University, l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Johns Hopkins, he has written widely on the human security and international governance challenges presented by global environmental change and has advised the U.S. government and consulted with several NGOs on climate policy issues.