Biography
Anthony Barnett is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy.net which was launched in 2001, well before 9/11, to address the need for greater democracy in global affairs by combining the best of debate with the energy and potential of the web.
A social entrepreneur of wide experience, Anthony helped launch Charter 88 in 1988 and was its first Director. Generating widespread support he turned it into a movement for the democratic reform of Britain (at the end of the 90s the Telegraph described it as the UK’s "most influential pressure group of the decade"). Anthony is also a writer and journalist. He is the author of Iron Britannia; Soviet Freedom and This Time; and co-author and editor of among other books, Aftermath: the Struggle of Vietnam and Cambodia; Power and the Throne, Town and Country and a considerable range of articles and pamphlets covering politics and culture, such as, with Peter Carty, The Athenian Option – radical reform for the House of Lords, Demos, 1998, and the television film, England’s Henry Moore. He writes regularly for openDemocracy and contributes to many of its debates. |
