Cleo Paskal's varied print, radio, television and film assignments have taken her from Timbuktu to the Largest Ball of Twine in Minnesota.

Along the way, Cleo has contributed to (among many others): The Economist, The Sunday Times (U.K.), The Independent (U.K.), Islands, Columbia Journalism Review, Conde Nast Traveller, Spy, Wired, Japan Times, Times of India, and once, when the rent was due, the Weekly World News. She was also a host of the B.B.C. Radio 4 travel show Four Corners and wrote the Emmy Award winning tv series Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within.

In the past six years, Cleo has won fourteen major writing awards, including Grand Prize (best entry overall) from the North American Travel Journalist's Association (twice). And not including 'Child Most Likely To Store Boxes In My Basement Forever' from her dad.

Her obsession with the world's smallest countries has led to Cleo being hospitalized in Kiribati, having a child named after her in Samoa and marrying a man from the Faroe Islands. One of the wedding guests was from San Marino. Her series on microstates aired on the B.B.C. World Service. And yes, Canuck trivia fans, she was in Lies My Father Told Me.

Cleo is currently working on a book about how
large-scale environmental change will affect geopolitics. As a result, she is spending more time than usual in the UK working with Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs). You can see more about her work here.
They have just released Cleo's Briefing Paper on how climate change might affect borders. You can read it here