Editors-in-chief and chief executives
Anthony Barnett 2001-07
Tony Curzon Price 2007-12
Magnus Nome 2012-14
Mary Fitzgerald 2014-21
Peter Geoghegan 2021-23
Satbir Singh, chief executive 2023-24
Aman Sethi, editor-in-chief, appointed 2024
Why we founded openDemocracy 20 years ago – and why it worked
At the turn of the millennium, we needed a radical new media outlet that could keep up with a changing world. Now, the world is changing again
Anthony Barnett
‘Go ahead, lad’: the beginning of openDemocracy – a tribute to David Shutt
The late Liberal Democrat peer played a seminal role in the origins of openDemocracy.
Anthony Barnett
An improbable team
It took an unlikely combination of talents to start building openDemocracy’s Tower of Babel, comments one of its founders
Susan Richards