Carne Ross is a former British diplomat who resigned after giving then-secret evidence to an official inquiry into Iraqi WMD. His evidence stated that the intelligence the UK held on Iraq did not justify the government's claims that Iraq posed a threat. Ross’s evidence also stated that the UK and US had ignored available non-military alternatives to the 2003 invasion.

While a diplomat, Ross was responsible for Iraq and the Middle East on the British delegation to the UN Security Council (1998-2002). He has also worked as speechwriter to the British foreign secretary, and on issues including terrorism, climate change and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He now runs the world's first non-profit diplomatic advisory group, Independent Diplomat, based in New York, with offices in four other diplomatic centres. His book, Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite was published in 2007. He is currently working on a book about anarchism and the contemporary world.

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Carne Ross: Our Diplomatic Deficit

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