Cleo Paskal is an Associate Fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources department and the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House, London. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow for the Indo-Pacific with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington, D.C. She works with academia, government, national security professionals, the defence community and others to better understand, explain, anticipate and resolve today’s complex challenges. She is particularly interested in the strategic implications of geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geophysical change. Her books include the award-winning Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map and the best-selling Spielball Erde. With a background in journalism, she writes regularly for The Diplomat, The World Today, The Telegraph (UK), and the BBC among many others, and is North America Special Correspondent for the Sunday Guardian (India).