Carne Ross (born 1966) is the founder and executive director of

Independent Diplomat Independent Diplomat is a non-profit non-governmental organisation founded in 2004 by British former diplomat Carne Ross to give advice and assistance in diplomatic strategy and technique to governments and political groups. It provides diplomat ...

, a diplomatic advisory group.

Career

After graduating from

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, Ross joined the

British Foreign Office The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. Equivalent to other countries' ministries of foreign affairs, it was created on 2 September 2020 through the merger of the Foreig ...

and worked at the UK embassy in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

, Germany before moving to the UK mission to the UN. He resigned from the Foreign Office after 15 years of service, citing his secret evidence to the Butler Review as the reason. In 2007, he is a supporter of a UN Parliamentary Assembly. In 2004, he founded the

non-governmental organisation A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in ...

Publications and documentary

Ross published a book called ''Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite'' in 2007 and a book called ''The Leaderless Revolution'' in 2011. He wrote a play called ''The Fox''. In the "Acknowledgements" section of his 2013 novel, '' A Delicate Truth'',

John le Carré David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...

thanks Ross for "his example demonstrat ngthe perils of speaking a delicate truth to power." In 2017, BBC4 broadcast a documentary about Ross's life and ideas called ''The Accidental Anarchist''. The documentary charts Ross's change from a civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to an anarchist. The linguist, cognitive scientist and political activist

Noam Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky i ...

appears in the documentary. Ross explores the philosophy of democratic confederalism developed by Abdullah Öcalan and its influence on Kurdish groups in the Syrian Civil War such as the YPG and

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. Ross sees these groups as anarchist.

Personal life

Ross is the grandson of linguist and academic Alan S. C. Ross.

Selected works

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