Andrew Gilmour (UN official)

Andrew James Gilmour CMG (born March 1964) is CEO of the Berghof Foundation and author of The Burning Question: Climate and Conflict - Why Does It Matter.

[3] An environmentalist since joining the WWF at the age of 10,[4] he has published articles on the links between climate change, environmental degradation, human rights and conflict for Bloomberg[5] and Frankfurter Allgememeine Zeitung.

Gilmour was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Modern History and won the Gladstone Memorial Prize (1986) for his thesis on The Changing Reactions of the British press to Mussolini, 1935–40.

[7] He undertook a master's degree at the London School of Economics in Government and International Relations in 1986–87.

[citation needed] Gilmour joined the United Nations in 1989 and worked in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, the Middle East, West Africa, and the Balkans.