Carne Ross is a former British diplomat, serving for 15 years before resigning after giving evidence to the Butler Inquiry into the use of intelligence on Iraq's WMD in 2004. He then founded and now runs Independent Diplomat, a non-profit diplomatic advisory organisation, which consults for democratic countries and groups across the world. Now based in New York, his is author of The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century, to be published in September 2011 in the UK and early 2012 in the US. Follow Carne on his blog and via Twitter @carneross
