Carne Ross — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founded Independent Diplomat in 2004, the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group.
Served 15 years in the UK Foreign Office, including as Britain's Iraq expert at the UN from 1997-2002.
Resigned from the Foreign Office in 2004 after giving secret testimony to the Butler Review on the 2003 Iraq War.
Authored "Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite" (2007), a critique of contemporary diplomacy.
Advised the Marshall Islands in forming and leading the High Ambition Coalition at the Paris climate talks, securing key elements of the Paris Agreement.
Graduated with a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Exeter in 1988.

Biography

Carne Ross is a former senior British diplomat who resigned from the UK Foreign Office in 2004 after 15 years of service. His resignation followed his secret testimony to the first official inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War, where he had served as Britain's Iraq expert at the UN from 1997-2002. His evidence later became public under parliamentary privilege in 2007, leading to calls for a full public inquiry into the Iraq War, and he subsequently testified publicly to the Chilcot Iraq Inquiry.