Happy birthday to GD

by | Apr 25, 2012


Dear oh dear! Amid all the excitement about what happens after 2015 and so on, all of us somehow managed to overlook the small fact that it was Global Dashboard’s fifth birthday last month. Here are David and my very first posts on the site, back in March 2007. (We seemed to be a lot less wordy back then.)

Big thanks to all our contributors, readers and retweeters – here’s to the next five years!

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  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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