Cleo Paskal

Cleo Paskal specializes in the geopolitical, security and economic implications of environmental change. For example, if a low-lying country such as the Maldives disappears below rising seas, does it cease to exist as a country? Do its waters become international waters? And what does that mean for similarly compromised low-lying strategic installations such as US and UK military bases?

Cleo is a Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, UK; 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 consults for a wide range of stakeholders including the US Department of Energy, UK Ministry of Defence, EU, NATO, OSCE and the Canadian government.

Cleo is also an award-winning writer who has contributed to, among others,The Economist, The Independent, and the Sunday Times. She has hosted BBC radio shows and wrote an Emmy-winning documentary TV series. Her book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map was published in 2010.