Julian Stern

Julian Stern is openDemocracy's Executive Director.

He has worked as a BBC radio journalist and for Informa Telecoms & Media as a writer, editor and manager. He has lived and worked in West Africa as well as the USSR/Russia. He holds a BA in Russian & Soviet Studies from the University of Birmingham and an MA in Contemporary History & Politics from Birkbeck College in London.

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By Julian Stern

/ 5 Jul 2011

openDemocracy: ten years of reporting human rights and democracy

Today we are starting a fundraising appeal for our tenth anniversary fund. openDemocracy is not a commercial site and depends on its readers and supporters. Read on for more information on our plans for the future, and if you can, do please Donate

By Julian Stern

/ 25 Nov 2010

Conservative "majority" in England even less fair than in UK as whole

The Conservatives polled the most votes of any single party in England, but their majority of English Parliamentary seats is by no means based on an overall majority of votes.

By Julian Stern

/ 11 May 2010

Trust and scale in the justice system

Julian Stern (oD): One issue unlikley to have been on Gordon Brown's and Nicolas Sarkozy's agenda last week was prison construction - but it might have

By Julian Stern

/ 6 Apr 2008