UN Consultant and intergenerational fairness champion, originally from the UK but have spent most of my career working across Asia, and now Oceania.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined November 2009
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The Oceania Futures Symposium last week felt like sinking into a very comfortable couch. I didn’t want to get up out of it! A healing experience. A genuinely rare one.
I was honoured to deliver the closing keynote — humbled, and honestly a little conscious, given I've only been in Australia for four months and the theme was Navigating Futures Through Oceanic Knowing. But by the end of day two, my physiology had caught up with the room. I was welcomed, embraced, and totally calm. I was able to speak from both the head and the heart. Maybe more heart than usual.
I spoke about the social contract — and why it is breaking. I spoke about intergenerational governance — participatory, ground-up, anticipatory — as a moral obligation at the twilight of democracy. And that twilight is not an ending, but the hour before a new dawn.
#Foresight #YouthParticipation #IntergenerationalGovernance #OceaniaFutures #Democracy
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Strip away worker protections, and tools with the potential to liberate us become the tools used to exploit us.
Jeff Bezos, worth $233 billion, wants to raise $100 billion to replace factory workers with robots.
That’s a declaration of war against the working class.
He must explain to the American people what happens when millions lose their jobs. How will they survive?
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Behind the headlines... 96% of children in Gaza feel like death is imminent.
How will growing up amidst war and relentless violence shape the next generation?
How will they, in turn, shape the world?
Is anyone considering this?
Gaza: 96% of children say they feel death is imminent.
After more than two years of war & relentless violence, young Palestinians face a deepening mental health emergency. Girls are at particular risk, including a rise in child marriage, @UNFPA reports.
news.un.org/en/story/2026/03…
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65 children killed in the West Bank since January 2025. Why is this not headline news?
Two young siblings killed in Tammun over the weekend as child casualties continue.
Statement by UNICEF Regional Director Edouard Beigbeder, on the killing of Palestinian children in the West Bank: unicef.link/3PgiYEX
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Everyone's been so busy dunking on Timothée Chalamet they forgot who they're actually dealing with.
The Lisan Al Gaib doesn't care about your takes.
#Dune3
The first trailer for the epic conclusion of the DUNE franchise has been released.
‘DUNE: PART THREE’ in theaters December 18.
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Look at this footage. An entire country. In the dark. 10 million people without power. That's around 2 million children. This is not just an infrastructure crisis but a human rights crisis. A child rights crisis. #Cuba
Esto es emocionante. Se está comenzando a respirar libertad en Cuba.
Octava noche consecutiva de protestas, pero está ya comienza a ser masiva. Todo el pueblo de Ciego de Avila está en las calles.
El pueblo unido contra la dictadura. Que todo el mundo vea estas imágenes.
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Being British means inheriting a history I didn’t choose but must reckon with, over and over again.
As Zohran details brilliantly, Ireland was where the blueprint for colonial oppression was written. Those who resisted it, from St Patrick’s time onwards, deserve to be called what they were: freedom fighters.
Happy st Patrick’s day. ☘️
It’s been nearly 4 months since I arrived in Australia, leaving the madness of Bangkok for the relative peace and serenity of Sydney. Im grateful for time by the sea, wide open spaces, clean air, warm loving human beings, public space, and moments of nostalgia when I stumble across something English (tea and biscuits, bacon sandwiches, sarcasm, cold rain). Perturbed by shark attacks, ludicrous house prices, and an apparent local addiction to chicken schnitzel and other bland favorites. 16 years in Thailand spoilt me clearly. What I didn’t anticipate was how head spinning all of this change would be. Turns out 16 years somewhere gets under your skin in ways you don’t fully understand until you leave. Still finding my feet — but the view helps.
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200 children killed in #Iran. 91 in #Lebanon. 4 in #Israel. 1 in #Kuwait.
In ten days.
Behind every one of those numbers is a name, a family, a future that no longer exists.
The world has a duty to protect children in conflict. That duty is being failed — everywhere, all at once.
unicef.org/press-releases/ch…
#UNICEF #ChildrensRights
“It’s not your fault”… After a night of Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics speaking to a packed Sydney town hall about rising #inequality, a 14 year old girl asked him for advice. Here’s some of what he said. @TheAusInstitute @OxfamAustralia
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Wow @j0rdan_benjamin just had to message and say I thought you were utterly brilliant and totally infectious in #TheLittleBigThings. The future is bright for you 🌅 @NationalTheatre #NationalTheatreAtHome
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Devastating to not get to see them play, but it just wouldn’t stop raining and the pitch was buggered. Shame
Both sets of players have done a lap around the outside of the pitch to say thanks to the crowd. Gutted for the Spurs fans over here. They're so passionate. It would have been the first time Tottenham had played a match over here in front of them. football.london/tottenham-ho…
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@qrsupport lost a pram on our flight from bangkok >>> Doha >>> Barcelona. Sent a lost luggage form, no reply. No number to call. Carrying our baby around Spain SUCKS. Please contact me back asap.
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A brilliant woman! Good luck @albarrett09
A warm welcome to @albarrett09 , our newly appointed country director for @inBritish . She is already winning our hearts - watch this video 👇👇
Ran into two Sachdevs on my 7k #run in #Bangkok this evening 🌅 #myfitnessjourney @ สวนป่าเบญจกิติ : Benchakitti Forest Park instagram.com/p/CcaSvKVPhoa/… – at Khlong Toei, Thailand
Where’s the emoji for an elephant in the room 🐘 #masongreenwood
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This man is doing more to shore up humanity’s future than anybody, and you don’t like @elonmusk because he’s not politically correct? Priorities people youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM via @YouTube