Cleo Paskal

Cleo Paskal specializes in the geopolitical, security, and economic implications of environmental change (including climate change). She is a Fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, UK. Cleo is 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 (GlobalEESE), 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. Cleo Paskal 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. She has an embarrassingly large collection of radio shows from the 1940s and 1950s. Mostly detectives.